Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing CardsUniversity of Hawaii Press, 30 jun 2006 - 208 páginas In the West, Japanese woodblock printing tends to be associated with the ukiyo-e tradition and the familiar portrayals of kabuki actors or courtesan beauties. These well-known images were produced by a publisher and artist using the extraordinary skills of carvers and printers, whose identities are rarely known. The same craftsmen also produced woodblock-printed objects for use in everyday life such as decorative paper (chiyogami), votive slips (senjafuda), playing cards (karuta), and board games (sugoroku). As the market changed in the late nineteenth century, the craftsmen increasingly turned to the production of these low-value, essentially ephemeral objects. Although the prices were kept low, many were imbued with the same glorious visual sophistication that had attracted Westerners to ukiyo-e. |
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Notes | 6 |
Foreword | 8 |
history method context | 10 |
A brief history of printing in Japan | 13 |
The woodblock technique | 19 |
Edo society | 23 |
The art of play | 28 |
knowledge news views | 40 |
Votive slips and exchange slips senjafuda and kōkanfuda | 94 |
Catfish prints namazue 114 Medicine prints baiyakue | 114 |
Smallpox prints and measles prints hōsōe and hashikae | 120 |
Obituary prints shinie | 125 |
leisure pleasure play | 130 |
Playful prints and toy prints asobie and omochae | 132 |
Board games sugoroku jūrokumusashi and menko | 164 |
Playing cards karuta | 183 |
Books | 42 |
Calendars koyomi | 47 |
Programmes and lists banzuke and zukushi | 51 |
Newssheets kawaraban and shinbun nishikie 51 | 58 |
The art of travel maps guides and gazetteers | 62 |
Advertising hikifuda | 72 |
The outside world Nagasakie Yokohamae and sayae | 80 |
faith fortune general wellbeing | 92 |
Decorative papers karakami chiyogami pochibukuro and fūtō | 193 |
and finally | 202 |
Artists outlines | 204 |
Glossary | 205 |
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