Manga from the floating world
Subtitle: comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan
By: Adam L. Kern.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 279
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9780674022669
Subjects: Kibyoshi-bon; Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan; Japanese fiction -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism
Notes: Part II. translations (p. 256-506) issued back-to-back with inverted text.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-524) and index.

Some kibyoshi items translated from Japanese.