Title Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan / Adam L. Kern

Published Cambridge, Mass. : the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006

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Description xxiii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279 Contents Pt. I. The Kibyoshi (a study) -- Introduction : a little yellow comicbook -- 1. The floating world in An'ei-Tenmei Edo -- 2. The blossom of pulp fiction -- 3. Manga culture and the visual-verbal imagination -- 4. The rise and pratfall of the Kibyoshi -- Pt. II. Translations -- A note on reading backwards -- A note on translating the Kibyoshi -- 5. Those familiar bestsellers -- 6. Playboy, roasted a la Edo -- 7. The unseamly silverpiped swingers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Some kibyoshi items translated into Japanese Subject Kusazōshi. Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan. Japanese fiction -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism. LC no. 2006026130 ISBN 9780674022669 cloth alkaline paper 0674022661 cloth alkaline paper

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