LITMIR.BIZ

      Frederick Harris

      TUTTLE Publishing

       Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore

      To Mun, with love forever

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

       www.tuttlepublishing.com

      Text © 2010 Frederick Harris

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      ISBN: 978-1-4629-0614-7 (ebook)

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      Names in capital letters in the captions refer to the names by which the print artists are best known, whether family names or art or professional names.

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      Front endpaper: HOKUSAI The Lone Fisherman at Kajikazawa (page 106).

      Back endpaper: HIROSHIGE Night Snow at Kambara (page 112).

      HOKUSAI Fishing Boats at Choshi (page 107).

      KUNISADA Two Courtesans (page 58).

      CONTENTS

	Preface
1	Historical Background
2	Materials and Techniques
3	Book Illustrations
4	Poetry Prints and Picture Calendars
5	Beautiful Women
6	Actors and Wrestlers
7	Landscapes
8	Sensual Pleasures
9	Birds and Flowers
10	Heroes and Ghosts
11	Foreigners in Japan
12	Collecting and Caring for Prints
	Where to See and Buy Prints
	Bibliography
	Acknowledgments
	Index

      Preface

      FIG. 1

      Kitagawa UTAMARO

      歌麿 (1754–1806)

      Entrance to a Picture Dealer’s Shop

      江戸名物錦画耕作 (1790s)

      Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e), 22 x 15 cm

      Author’s Collection

      The focus of this print is a picture dealer showing a sheet of ukiyo-e to some female customers. Three scrolls hang on the wall in the rear of the shop. Other prints are suspended from the ceiling, one of which depicts a sumo wrestler, a popular subject at the time.

      My aim in writing this book is to appeal to a new generation of art lovers and collectors in the world of ukiyo-e (literally “pictures of the floating world”), a genre of Japanese

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