Subjects portrayed in Japanese colour-prints :
a collector's guide to all the subjects illustrated, including an exhaustive account of the Chushingura and other famous plays, together with a causerie on the Japanese theatre /
by Basil Stewart; illustrated with reproductions of over 270 prints from the author's collection and other sources : 22 in colour.

Description

Main Author

Stewart, Basil, 1880-

Related Names

Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Language(s)

English

Published

London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1922.

Edition

Rev. and enl. ed. of the work published in 1920 under title: Japanese colour-prints and the subjects they illustrate.

Subjects

Ukiyoe.
Theater.
Color prints, Japanese > Color prints, Japanese / Edo period.
Artists' marks.
Theater in art.
Ukiyo-e.
Theater in art.
Theater > Theater / Japan.
Artists' marks.
Ukiyoe.
Color prints, Japanese > Color prints, Japanese / Edo period, 1600-1868.
Japan.

Note

Includes index.
"Artists' signatures": p. 364-367.
Each colored plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press.

Physical Description

2 p. l., xvi, 381, [1] p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col., 1 fold.) ; 39 cm.

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