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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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Series |
Japan library |
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Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangy Shink Zaidan)
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Note |
Translation of: "Kidai shran" no Nihonbashi : kakki ni afureta Edo no machi : Berurin Ty Bijutsukan z "kidai shran" emaki. |
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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.
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Bridges -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Pictorial works.
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Scrolls, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
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Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works.
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Pictorial works.
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Added Author |
Kobayashi, Tadashi, 1941- author.
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Carpenter, Juliet Winters, translator.
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ISBN |
9784866581323 |
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4866581328 |
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