| Other title |
Edo no yūwaku : Bosuton Bijutsukan shozō nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ten |
| Other title |
Allure of Edo : Ukiyo-e painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Contents |
Edo society and culture: Ukiyo-e's setting / Kobayashi Tadashi -- The flowering of low and high arts in Edo Japan / Howard Hibbett -- The origins of Ukiyo-e / Naitō Masato -- Courtesans, geisha, and male prostitutes / Asano Shūgō -- With an eye to style, 1690-1765: early Ukiyo-e -- An air of innocence, 1765-1780: Suzuki harunobu and his contemporaries -- Images of feminine allure,1780-1805: Torii Kiyonaga and Kitagwawa Utamaro -- Establishing a lineage, 1780-1850: the utagawa school -- "The man mad about painting," 1760-1849: Katsushika Hokusai -- Appendix: Mountings and painting techniques of Ukiyo-e hanging scrolls / Philip Meredith, Tanya Uyeda. |
| General note | "Published in conjunction with the exhibition in Japan 'Edo no yūwaku Bosuton bijutsukan shozō nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ten' (The Allure of Edo: Ukiyo-e Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and in North America 'Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating world, 1690-1850', organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ..."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006934965 |
| ISBN | 9780878467105 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0878467106 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780878467112 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 0878467114 (softcover) |
