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John Stevenson Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales

Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales

This book opens with a study of Japanese ghost prints and analysis of Yoshitoshi’s changing treatments of the genre, and reproduces three rare paintings by the artist. This is Yoshitoshi at his most whimsical and imaginative.

Kendall H. Brown Water and Shadow

Kendall H. Brown

Water and Shadow

Known as Japan’s premier “poet of place,” Kawase Hasui is one of the most popular landscape artists of the twentieth century. This richly illustrated catalogue spans Kawase Hasui’s most imaginative period— from 1918 to the Great Earthquake of 1923.

Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere & Mikiko Hirayama (et al.) Reflecting Truth

Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere & Mikiko Hirayama (et al.)

Reflecting Truth

This book shows how scholarly investigation of Japanese photography has entered a transitional stage – moving beyond its focus on new discoveries and descriptions of collections, to investigating photography in historical and cultural contexts.

Robert Schaap Kunisada

Kunisada: imaging drama and beauty offers a fresh perspective on this ukiyo-e master, demonstrating the high calibre of his art with prints, paintings and books sourced from international public and private collections.

John M. Rosenfield Portraits of Chōgen

John M. Rosenfield

Portraits of Chōgen

This book vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjōbō Chōgen (1121–1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict in 1180.

Soetsu Yanagi Soetsu Yanagi

Sixteen incisive essays by Soetsu Yanagi, founder of the Japanese folk craft movement and author of The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty.

Chris Uhlenbeck & Marije Jansen Hiroshige

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Chris Uhlenbeck & Marije Jansen

This book includes an introduction, sketching the cultural and economic environment of Hiroshige, the development of his oeuvre, and the rise of his his artistic reputation in Japan and the West. Followed by a chronological presentation of 140 prints.

Laura J. Mueller Competition and Collaboration

Laura J. Mueller

Competition and Collaboration

This 232-page groundbreaking catalogue features full-color images of more than 200 prints from the renowned Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Julie Nelson Davis Picturing the Floating World

Julie Nelson Davis

Picturing the Floating World

This book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.

Jan Dees Breaking out of Tradition.

Breaking out of Tradition.

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in Japanese lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century – the dawn of Modernism.

Sakaida Kakiemon XIV The Art of Emptiness

Sakaida Kakiemon XIV

The Art of Emptiness

For the first time, the techniques and tradition behind the creation of ceramic works from the Kakiemon family are disclosed through the words of the late Kakiemon XIV.

Asato Ikeda (et al.) Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960

Asato Ikeda (et al.)

Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960

Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 is an anthology that investigates the impact of the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945) on artistic practices and brings together twenty scholars including art historians, historians, and museum curators.

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