Seigle Cecilia (63 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. A beautiful, unread hardcover copy. DJ in mylar cover.

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Condition: very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). First English language edition. Octavo in white DJ; 210 p; 22 cm. Novel; Japanese. Translated to English. Very little wear to DJ, light scuff to spine foot & head, barely rubbed corners, else near fine(-) in very good+ DJ.

First edition Brand new glossy wraps with clean text. New and bright all around, gift quality.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, and Yoshiwara arts.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Firm cover and clean pages that may have very minor cosmetic defects. A solid, nice copy to enjoy. All Items in stock ready for immediate shipping! Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Condition: very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, and Yoshiwara arts.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near fine copy in fine DJ. ; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 336 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Edgewear to jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, very good with light shelf-wear. Spine square and uncreased. Binding sound. Pages bright and unmarked.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent Condition. Clean cover and int. pages. Good tight binding. Check out photos; ask questions. A courtesan's day in the carefree atmosphere of the famous pleasure quarter the Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo) was carefully planned to an hourly schedule. This sequence of twelve and later twenty-four hours proved a convenient device for Japanese print artists and their publishers when devising sets of prints showing favorite beauties of the day engaged in daily activities. This volume presents three prints series on the same theme produced over the course of a century. Besides being an obvious aid to collectors of these sets, it also provides a fascinating insight into the world of the female entertainer in Edo, and later Tokyo. The book opens with Cecilia Seigle's comprehensive introduction to life in this highly structured and tightly controlled pleasure quarter, offering insights into the often hard and occasionally glamorous life of the courtesan in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo. The first series treated here, Utamaro's famous 'Twelve Hours in Yoshiwara' (Seirô jûni toki tsuzuki), c. 1794, is shown in all its glory with descriptions by Tim Clark, Keeper of Japanese Antiquities at the British Museum. We then leap forward in time to the Meiji period when the status of women in Japanese society, and particularly those in the Yoshiwara, underwent substantial change. Alfred Marks discusses Yoshitoshi's set 'Twenty-four hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi' (Shinryû nijûshi toki), 1880, with translations of the copious textual information on the prints. Amy Newland concludes by examining Toyohara Kunichika's interpretation of the theme of 'twenty-four hours' as represented in his set 'The scenes of the twenty-four hours parodied' (Mitate chûya nijûyoji no uchi), 1890.…

Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First Edition. Nice copy. Light edgewear, but binding is tight and all pages are clean and unmarked.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Black and white illustrations, xiv + 310pp, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dustjacket. From the library of Aubrey and Eva Sweet with a small label indicating the collection number on the spine.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. Drawing on both historical and literary sources, examines life in the pleasure houses of Japan during the Edo period from the early 1600s to 1868. Among the topics are the origins, illegal competitors, the cost of a visit, the treatment of the courtesans, traditions and protocols, and Yoshiwara arts.…

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Yoshiwara. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover small quarto illustrated 310 pages fine copy in very good Dust Jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st prtg. white textured boards, unclipped color illus yellow dj, exc unread, gift cond, clean & bright ;light orange eps, b/w illus on plates, text illus, 311 pp. covers the period 1600-1868. hb OP. Size: 6.5"-9.5".

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 160 pages. 11.00x9.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.