Kunisada = 国貞 : imaging drama and beauty

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 900433789X; 9789004337893
• Title: Kunisada : imaging drama and beauty
• Author/Editor: Robert Schaap; with an introduction by Sebastian Izzard and contributions by Paul Griffith and Henk J. Herwig.
• Title Heading: Kunisada (Japan Museum SieboldHuis)
• Author Heading: Schaap, Robert.; Izzard, Sebastian.; Griffith, Paul M. ( 00977420 )Authorities; Herwig, Henk.; 歌川, 豊国 3世, 1786-1864 ウタガワ, トヨクニ 3セイ, 1786-1864 ( 00272461 )Authorities; Japan Museum SieboldHuis.
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Leiden, The Netherlands : Hotei Publishing (出版)
• Publication Date: [2016]
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2016
• Extent: 174 pages
• Other physical details: illustrations (chiefly color)
• Size: 30 cm
• Alternative Title: 国貞
• Place of Publication (Country Code): NL
• Text Language Code: eng
• Genre/Form Terms: Catalogs.
• Content Type: text; still image
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864--Exhibitions.; Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.; Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.; Ukiyoe--Catalogs.; Color prints, Japanese.; Color prints, Japanese--Edo period.; Ukiyoe.
• LCC: NE1325.U793
• DDC: 769.92
• NDLC: K3; KC172
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Issued in connection with an exhibition held December 9, 2016-March 5, 2017, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, Netherlands.
• Note (Content): Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) was one of the most successful Japanese woodblock print designers of his age. With an estimated output of some twenty-five thousand prints during a career spanning almost sixty years, Kunisada was a towering figure in the sphere of 'ukiyo-e'. His versatility and inventiveness extended across genres, from the stars of the kabuki stage to the women from the pleasure districts, the world of entertainment and the everyday, as well as landscapes, warriors and literary themes. Kunisada was greatly respected during his lifetime as a print designer of the Utagawa school and as the head of a successful studio with students, such as Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900), who would carry the tradition of woodblock prints into the Meiji period (1868-1912). Yet scholars, collectors and connoisseurs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries dismissed him and many of his contemporaries as "decadent". And in recent decades his achievements have often been overshadowed by his contemporary Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). 'Kunisada: imaging drama and beauty' offers a fresh perspective on this 'ukiyo-e' master, demonstrating the high calibre of his art with prints, paintings and books sourced from international public and private collections. Although the over one hundred and fifty works in the publication represent only a small part of Kunisada's vast oeuvre, they serve to convey his skill in capturing and imagining Japanese popular culture of the first half of the nineteenth century.
• Note (Bibliography): Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Collection (particular): 日本関係外国語図書
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: K3-B1224
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 028097717; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/028097717
• LC Control Number: 2016498575; https://lccn.loc.gov/2016498575
• OCLC No.: 961008492; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961008492
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211

• Contents: Preface / Robert Schaap & Chris UhlenbeckLenders to the exhibition & catalogue: notes to readersUtagawa Kunisada, the artist and his times / Sebastian...