Product Description: Edo is the ancient name for the city of Tokyo and covers the historic period from 1603 until 1868 when Japan was ruled by the shoguns. This military class transformed Edo from a fishing village into one of the largest, most populous and most cultivated cities in the world...read more

Filled with brillient colors and breathtakingly beautiful scenes from seventeenth-century Japan, this celebration of the the great Japanese art of woodblock prints introduces readers to the 'floating world' of medieval Japan. (view table of contents)

Shows and describes Edo-period art, including screens, armor, woodblock prints, pottery, and kimonos (view table of contents)

Product Description: The domination of the Tokugawa government, centered in Edo, now Tokyo, was responsible for the isolation of Japan from the rest of the world and for the relative peace that distinguished the Edo period (1603-1868). These factors contributed to the rise of a wealthy merchant class whose aspirations and desires were expressed in a lively, carefree urban culture revolving around the entertainment areas of the nouveaux riches--the brothel district and the kabuki theater...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Calligraphed ideograms picture words with painted poems in 17th century Japan. Artists in this period used the great 13th century poet, Fujiware Teika, as a source for their paintings. Essays in Japanese and English. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

The triumphs and tragedies of Guma, a poor sailor, and Livia, the woman he loves, mirror the mysteries, passions, and dreams of life itself, in a story in Bahia, Brazil in the early 1930s

The triumphs and tragedies of Guma, a poor sailor, and Livia, the woman he loves, mirror the mysteries, passions, and dreams of life itself, in a story in Bahia, Brazil in the early 1930s

Essays discuss the evolution of Tokyo's art and architecture from the seventeenth century to the present and the coexistence of technology and tradition

The first study and collection of Japanese supernatural art, this illustrated volume shows how Japan's long tradition of brilliant artists attempted to understand the mysteries of the world