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Manga from the Floating World - Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition, With a New Preface (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Manga from the Floating World - Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition, With a New Preface (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in
English of the kibyoshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book
widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis
of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was
produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by
major author-artist Santo Kyoden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce
the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a
sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the
mid-Edo period. The kibyoshi, Kern argues, became an influential
form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the
uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something
more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal
government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary
sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously
illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It
serves as an introduction not only to the kibyoshi but also to the
genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of
visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese manga
and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic
puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the
general reader as well as to the more experienced student of
Japanese cultural history-and anyone interested in the global
history of comics, graphic novels, and manga.
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