Manga from the Floating World

Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.

Adam Kern ofera o lectura atenta a imaginatiei populare vibrante prin kibyoshi, un gen de fictiune picturala sofisticata din Japonia de la sfarsitul secolului al XVIII-lea. Ilustrate cu imprimeuri rare din colectiile de arhiva japoneze, aceste lucrari distractive vor atrage atat cititorul general, cat si studentul istoriei culturale japoneze.