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Author Ozawa, Hiromu, 1947- author.

Uniform Title "Kidai shran" no Nihonbashi. English
Title The Kidai Shran scroll : Tokyo street life in the Edo period / Ozawa Hiromu and Kobayashi Tadashi ; translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter.

Publication Info. Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  952.135 Oz1k 2020    ---  Available
Edition First English edition.
Description 106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, color maps ; 23 x 31 cm.
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still image sti rdacontent
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volume nc rdacarrier
Series Japan library
Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangy Shink Zaidan)
Note Translation of: "Kidai shran" no Nihonbashi : kakki ni afureta Edo no machi : Berurin Ty Bijutsukan z "kidai shran" emaki.
This book was purposefully produced "backwards" and should be read from right to left.--Cover.
Summary The Kidai Shran is a magnificent painted Japanese scroll over 12 meters long. It is an artistic rendering of one of the most iconic streets of Edo (now Tokyo) at the beginning of the nineteenth century, covering five blocks of the main shopping thoroughfare leading south fromthe Imagawabashi Bridge to the bridge at Nihonbashi, and depicts over 1,600 people coming from every walk of society-- from samurai to student, hairdressers, minstrels and geisha.
Subject Nihonbashi (Tokyo, Japan) -- Pictorial works.
Bridges -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Pictorial works.
Scrolls, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works.
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Kobayashi, Tadashi, 1941- author.
Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.
ISBN 9784866581323
4866581328

 
    
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