春画展 /

Shungaten / [henshū Eisei Bunko, Shungaten Nihon Kaisai Jikkō Iinkai].

永青文庫. 春画展日本開催実行委員会.
Contributor(s): Eisei Bunko | Shungaten Nihon Kaisai Jikkō Iinkai | British Museum
Language: Japanese Publisher: [東京] : 春画展日本開催実行委員会, 2015. [Tōkyō] : Shungaten Nihon Kaisai Jikkō Iinkai, 2015Description: 623 pages : chiefly color issustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeOther title: Shunga | Shunga-tenSubject(s): Color prints, Japanese -- Exhibitions | Erotic prints, Japanese -- Exhibitions | Ukiyoe -- Exhibitions
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Asia Japan NE1321.85.S58 E574 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00077203
Total holds: 0

There are 623 pages with 475 pages of complete color reproductions ehon and single sheets (totaling several hundred plates) of 133 individually titled works (67 from the British Museum and 62 from Japanese collections) with an opening 40+ page discussion by Kobayashi Tadashi titled "Acceptance of Shunga" followed by 13 more pages of two essays "Shunga and Meiji Japan" and "Daimyo and Shunga," with commentary accompanying many of the plates, plus 10 pages of brief biographical sketches of 42 artists, a 3 page bibliography ending with a 4 page Japanese plate list and 10 page English plate list.

Foreword and list of works also in English.