Featuring hundreds of illustrations,Japanese Prints: From Early Masters to the Modernis a comprehensive history and surv
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
List of Artists and Prints
Introduction
Section 1: THE EARLY PRINTS
The Beginnings
Kiyonobu Kiyomasu
Masanobu
Minor Masters
The End of an Epoch
Section 2: THE FULL-COLOR PRINTS
Harunobu
Koryusai
Buncho
Shunsho Shunko Shun'ei
K. Masanobu Shigemasa Toyoharu
Kiyonaga
Utamaro
Sharaku
Choki
Shuncho
Eishi Eisho Shucho
Section 3: LANDSCAPE AND FIGURE PRINTS
Hokusai and Followers
Toyokuni
Minor Masters
Hiroshige
Section 4: THE MODERNS
Transition
First Group
Onchi
Second Group
Notes on the prints
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover.