Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards
"Approaching the subject as an artist rather than a print scholar, Rebecca Salter focuses on the craftsmen and the complex visual culture within which they worked. Through information gained from interviews with some of the remaining practitioners and analysis of the objects themselves, she builds up a picture of the quiet role woodblock played in the lives of the Japanese as they moved from the isolation of the Edo period to embrace modernisation in the early 20th century." The book is an...
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"Approaching the subject as an artist rather than a print scholar, Rebecca Salter focuses on the craftsmen and the complex visual culture within which they worked. Through information gained from interviews with some of the remaining practitioners and analysis of the objects themselves, she builds up a picture of the quiet role woodblock played in the lives of the Japanese as they moved from the isolation of the Edo period to embrace modernisation in the early 20th century." The book is an exploration of this area of cultural history and the numerous colour illustrations encourage a playful investigation of the many threads of Japan's visual culture.
History, method, context10A brief history of printing in Japan12The woodblock technique19Edo society23The art of play28Knowledge, news, views40Books42Calendars : koyomi47Programmes and lists : banzuke and zukushi51News-sheets : kawaraban and shinbun nishiki-e58The art of travel - maps, guides and gazetteers62Advertising : hikifuda72The outside world : Nagasaki-e, Yokohama-e and saya-e80Faith, fortune, general well-being92Votive slips and exchange slips : senjafuda and kokanfuda94Catfish prints : namazu-e108Medicine prints : baiyaku-e114Smallpox prints and measles prints : hoso-e and hashika-e120Obituary prints : shini-e125Leisure, pleasure, play130Playful prints and toy prints : asobi-e and omocha-e132Board games : sugoroku, jurokumusashi and menko164Playing cards : karuta183Decorative papers : karakami, chiyogami, pochibukuro and futo193And finally ...202
