Of Brigands and Bravery: Kuniyoshi's Heroes of the Suikoden - Couverture souple

Klompmakers, Inge

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 907482255X ISBN 13 : 9789074822558

Editeur : Hotei Publishing,The Netherlands, 2016

Synopsis

Of brigands and bravery: Kuniyoshi’s heroes of the Suikoden is the first monograph in English on the stunning series of 74 prints illustrating figures from the Suikoden by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), one of the outstanding Japanese woodblock-print masters of the 19th century. The Suikoden (commonly known in English as The water margin) is the Japanese adaptation of the 14th-century Chinese vernacular novel, the Shui hu zhuan, which recounts the exploits of a group of rebels on Mount Liang (J. Ryösanpaku) under the lead of the brave and righteous Song Jiang. The Suikoden was enormously popular in Japan during the 19th century. It was Kuniyoshi’s initial designs for the single-sheet print series The one hundred and eight heroes of the popular Suikoden (Tsüzoku Suikoden göketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori) - in which the full-length portraits of the heroes are charged with a new sense of dynamism - that spurred a Suikoden craze in Edo (present-day Tokyo).

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À propos de l'auteur

Inge Klompmakers is currently acquisitions editor Asian Studies at Brill. Prior to her career in publishing, she worked as Japanese art specialist in the art trade. Klompmakers regularly writes and lectures on Japanese art. She is the author of Japanese Erotic Prints (2001) and The elegant life of Key Hiraga (2008) and contributed to Kawase Hasui: The Complete Woodblock Prints (2003) and The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hotei Publishing,The Netherlands
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 907482255X
• ISBN 13: 9789074822558
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible