Genji's World in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23353-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 290 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 2155 g

Genji's world in Japanese Woodblock Prints provides the first comprehensive overview of Genji prints, a phenomenon and exceptional subject of Japanese woodblock prints that gives insight into nineteenth-century Japan and its art practices.

In the late 1820s, when the writer Ryutei Tanehiko (1783–1842), the print designer and book illustrator Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865) and the publisher Tsuruya Kiemon sat down together in Edo to plot the inaugural chapter of the serial novel A Rustic Genji by a Fraudulent Murasaki (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji), it is doubtful that any one of them envisioned that their actions would generate a new genre in Japanese woodblock prints that would flourish until the turn of the century, Genjie (“Genji pictures”). During these sixty years, over 1,200 original designs were created of which many, judging by extant copies today, were very popular during their time of release.

The story of A Rustic Genji, set in fifteenth-century Japan, is in many respects drawn from Murasaki Shikibu’s (c.973–1014/25) classic novel The Tale of Genji from the early eleventh century.
As the foremost collection of this subject, the extensive collection of Paulette and Jack Lantz provided the majority of images necessary for this publication.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, curators, art dealers and collectors of Japanese art, in particular Japanese prints. This study is also of interest to scholars of Japanese literature (Tale of Genji and A Rustic Genji) and scholars of publishing history in Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marks, Andreas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Coats, Bruce

Emmerich, Michael

Formanek, Susanne

Linhart, Sepp

Paget, Rhiannon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Marks, Andreas
Andreas Marks is Director and Chief Curator at the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese art history from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a M.A. in East Asian art history and Chinese studies from Bonn University, Germany. As a specialist in Japanese art, he is the author of Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (2010), Publishers of Japanese Prints: A Compendium (Hotei Publishing, 2011), Fukami: Purity of Form (2011), and Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa Traditionalist, Modern Designer (2012). His book Tokaido Print Series: Kunisada’s Puzzles is forthcoming from Hotei Publishing.

Andreas Marks is Director and Chief Curator at the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Japanese art history from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a M.A. in East Asian art history and Chinese studies from Bonn University, Germany. As a specialist in Japanese art, he is the author of Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks, 1680–1900 (2010), Publishers of Japanese Prints: A Compendium (Hotei Publishing, 2011), Fukami: Purity of Form (2011), and Kamisaka Sekka: Rinpa Traditionalist, Modern Designer (2012). His book Tokaido Print Series: Kunisada’s Puzzles is forthcoming from Hotei Publishing.