Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of EDO Japan, Second Edition, with a New Preface by Adam L. Kern

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of EDO Japan, Second Edition, with a New Preface

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Adam L. Kern

606 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art comics design history

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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in whi...

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