Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture

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Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a prior to now neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the kind of handmade multicolor book frontispieces referred to as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Even though many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced on this amply illustrated and readable volume shed light on that there used to be every other class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a well-liked artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life on the end of the nineteenth century.

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