A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (Famous Japanese Print Series)
Seigle, Cecilia; Clark, Tim; Marks, Alfred; Newland, Amy Reigle
Language: English
Published by Hotei Publishing, 2004
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- Softcover
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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.…
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- Title
- A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (Famous Japanese Print Series)
- Author
- Seigle, Cecilia; Clark, Tim; Marks, Alfred; Newland, Amy Reigle
- Publisher
- Hotei Publishing
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9074822592
- ISBN 13
- 9789074822596
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 3 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Art History, Asian Art, Sexuality
In this second volume of Hotei Publishing's Famous Japanese Prints Series, three sets centred on the theme of the hours of the clock in the pleasure quarters are discussed in detail:
• Kitagawa Utamaro's The Twelve Hours of the 'Green Houses' (Seirō jūnitoki, c. 1794)
• Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's Twenty-four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi (Shinryū nijūyoji, 1880-81)
• Toyohara Kunichika's Scenes of the Twenty-four Hours, A Prictorial Trope (Mitate chūya nijūyoji, 1890-91)
A contextual and visual analysis of these works by the authors provides the reader with an insight into the broader cultural and artistic milieu of the early and later nineteenth century.
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About the Author
Monika Hinkel recently finished completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Japanese Studies, Bonn University on the topic of the historical prints of Toyohara Kunichika, with a focus on the Western influences on his art.
Amy Reigle Newland has worked as a specialist editor and writer on Japanese woodblock prints for some fifteen years, with a particular interest in works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Cecilia Segawa Seigle is Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, where she taught from 1984 to 1999.
Harue M. Summersgill is Professor Emerita of Japanese Language and Literature at Chaminade University, Honolulu, where she taught from 1976 to 1997. Her publications and translation work include ‘The Influence of William James and Henry Bergson on Natsume Sōseki’s Higan sugi made’ (Kyushu American Literature XXII, 1981) and Bonchi (by Yamasaki Toyoko; trans., 1982).
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