Timon Screech

Obtaining Images - Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9781861898142

In this highly illustrated, engaging and comprehensive survey, Timon Screech introduces the important artists of Edo period Japan and their work...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:320

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Obtaining Images (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9780824836139

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:320

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Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9781861894328

This revised and expanded second edition of Timon Screechs definitive Sex and the Floating World offers a new assessment of the genre of erotic Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled such images to be published without fear of prosecution...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:376

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The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later EDO Japan (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9780824825942

The study of food practices in different cultures and societies has long been an important part of anthropological studies. In recent years anthropological literature on food has generated new theoretical findings on this important aspect of human behavior that help explain cultural adaptation and social grouping in a more general way...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:320

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The Shogun's Painted Culture: Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States, 1760-1829 (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9781861890641

In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:311

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The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (Book)

Timon Screech

ISBN:9780521461061

This is the first study to consider the introduction of Western technology in the eighteenth century, when, it has been assumed, Japan continued to isolate itself from external influence. Timon Screech demonstrates that the introduction of such Western equipment as lenses...more details
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (Book)

Titsingh Isaac Screech Timon

ISBN:9780415546713

This book appeared posthumously in 1822 in English and French. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in 180 years....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:284

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Sex and the Floating World (Book)

Screech Timon

ISBN:9781861890306

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USD $48.29

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