Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780674241787 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780674241763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Title: Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan
• Author/Editor: Adam L. Kern.
• Edition: Second edition with a new preface.
• Series Title: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279
• Title Heading: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.
• Author Heading: Kern, Adam L.
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center (出版)
• Publication Date: 2019.
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2019
• Extent: xxxii, 567 pages
• Size: 29 cm.
• Place of Publication (Country Code): US
• Text Language Code: eng
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Kusazōshi.; Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan.; Japanese fiction--Edo period, 1600-1868--History and criticism.
• LCC: PL747.4
• DDC: 741.5/95209
• NDLC: KG234
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Pages 256-506 (Part II, translations) are binded in the end of the book in 'manga-style', that is, in the authentic Japanese right-to-left format.
• 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.: KG234-D2
• 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): 030131329; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/030131329
• LC Control Number: 2019010760; https://lccn.loc.gov/2019010760
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211

• Contents: Part I. The kibyōshi (a study): Introduction: A little yellow comicbookThe floating world in an'ei-tenmei EdoThe blossom of pulp fiction...
• Summary, etc.: "The first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comicbook widely read in late eighteenth-century Japan that bec...