Kuniyoshi : the faithful samurai /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weinberg, David R.
Imprint:	Leiden : Hotei Publishing, c2000.
Description:	191 p. : col. ill., map ; 31 cm.
Language:	English Japanese
Subject:	Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, -- 1798-1861. Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, -- 1798-1861 Samurai in art. Forty-seven Rōnin in art. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4400399

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Varying Form of Title:	Faithful samurai
Other authors / contributors:	Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861. Marks, Alfred H. Robinson, B. W.
ISBN:	9074822177
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191) and index. Prefatory material in English with texts of prints translated from the Japanese.

Table of Contents:

Map of Japan
1. Background
2. The event
3. The drama of the Chushingura and its illustration
4. Kuniyoshi and the forty-seven ronin warrior prints
5. Anatomy of the print
6. Technical details
7. The translations. The calligraphy and the language
Series I. Stories of The faithful samurai (Seichu gishi den) The plates: Series I
Series II. Stories of The faithful hearts (Seichu gishin den) The plates: Series II
App. a. Romanizing Japanese
App. c. Note on suffixes
App. d. On the currency.

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