Published to accompany the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 24 November 2001 - 17 February 2002.
The Dawn of the Floating World
This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.
25 Joppien and Smith 1985a, p. 16. 26 Forster, A Voyage round the World, London 1777, quoted by Joppien and Smith 1985b, vol. 2, p. 73. 27 Hume, “Of National Characters,” in Essays, Moral and Political, 2nd edn, 1742; reprinted in ...
57 They returned to Japan with samples of European fabrics, chemical dyes,the Jacquard loom,Kaye's flying shuttle and graph paper. Japan domesticated foreign technologies and materials, harnessing the powerofthe Westtofuel its ...
Examining the London sites which Morrison lived in and wrote about, this book is an excursion not into the Victorian East End, but into the fictions constructed around it.
This cultural history examines representations of pleasure work during Japan’s transformation into a modern nation-state.
Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868.
Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence.
(eds) , The Dawn of the Floating World 1650–1765 ( 2001 ), cat. no. 25 ; OED , 'Cyprian', 'Cytherean', 'Paphian'; Tom K---g's: or, The Paphian Grove ( 1738 ); Samuel Richardson, Letters and Passages Restored from the Original ...
McClain, James L., "Edobashi: Power, Space, and Popular Culture in Edo," in James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru (eds.), Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modem Era, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, ...