Manga from the Floating World - Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition, With a New Preface

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.