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Recommended Books 

 

Would you like to know more about Japanese Woodblock Prints and its artists? See below my recommended books (to buy click on the title or in the image). Click here to buy from the UK.


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General:

 

Rebecca Salter        Japanese Woodblock Printing

 

Very interesting book. Essential to understand the techniques used in Japanese Woodblock Prints and a great help for a deeper knowledge of the prints themselves. cover

 

 

 

Hiroshige:

 

Patrick Carey        Rediscovering the Old Tokaido: In the Footsteps of Hiroshige

 

Interesting description of a travel on foot by the Tokaido of today. Includes a reproduction of the first edition of Hiroshige's 53 Stations of the Tokaido. cover

 

 

Kunichika:

 

Amy Newland        Time Present and Time Past: Images of a Forgotten Master

 

Great reference on the work of Toyohara Kunichika. Includes color reproductions of 130 prints by this great master of the second half of the nineteen century. cover

 

 

Yoshitoshi:

 

John Stevenson    Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

 

The definitive book on the best known series of Yoshitoshi. Includes an introduction to the work of Yoshitoshi, well illustrated, as well as the reproduction of all prints in the series with an extensive description. cover

 

 

Shin Hanga:

 

Amy Newland        The female image. 20th Century prints of Japanese beauties.

 

Extensive survey on the female portrait in the Japanese print of the twentieth century. With color reproductions of 264 prints. cover

 

 

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