The Actor’s Image Print Makers of the Katsukawa School – Timothy Clark Koop Online

The “floating world”–the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries–embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habitués, and inspired a profusion of woodblock prints depicting renowned courtesans and adored matinee idols. Considered ephemera in their time, these prints are treasured works of art today. In this volume of “floating world prints” ( ukiyo-e ), the authors present a selection of Kabuki actor portraits and theater sc…