Written texts--visual texts
Subtitle: woodblock-printed media in early modern Japan
By: edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart.
Contributors: Formanek, Susanne.; Linhart, Sepp.
Series: Hotei academic European studies on Japan -- v. 3
Publisher: Hotei
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Illustration of books -- Japan; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- 18th century; Wood-engraving, Japanese -- 19th century; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Other titles: Woodblock-printed media in early modern Japan; Buch und Bild als gesellschaftliche Kommunikationsmittel in Japan einst und jetzt.
Notes: Revised 2nd ed. of the 1995 German version with the title Buch und Bild als gesellschaftliche Kommunikationsmittel in Japan einst und jetzt by the same editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Books and book illustrations in early modern Japan / Ekkehard May; title: The illustrated household encyclopedias that once civilized Japan / Yokoyama Toshio; title: The 'spectacle' of womanhood: new types in texts and pictures on pictorial Sugoroku games of the late Edo period / Susanne Formanek; title: The Tōkaidō woodblock print series as an example of intertextuality in the fine arts / Franziska Ehmcke; title: Culinary culture and its transmission in the late Edo period / Harada Nobua; title: The hidden heritage : books, prints, printed toys and other publications for young people in Tokugawa Japan /  Ann Herring; title: The printing of illustrated travelogues in 18th-century Japan / Shirahata Yōzaburō; title: Illustrated Kabuki texts / Martina Schōnbein; title: Kawaraban : enjoying the news when news was forbidden / Sepp Linhart; title: Illness illustrated. Socio-historical dimensions of late Edo measles pictures (Hashika-e) / Hartmut O. Rotermund; title: Between fiction and non-fiction :  documentary literature in the late Edo period / Stephan Kōhn; title: Publishing Ējanaika : popular religion as media event / Reinhard Zōllner; title: Shinbun nishiki-e, Nishiki-e shinbun: news and new sensations in old garb at the beginning of a new era / Sepp Linhart.