Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of EDO Japan, Second Edition, with a New Preface

by Adam L. Kern

Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santō Kyōden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674241789
• ISBN13: 9780674241787
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 606 Pages