Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan

The World of Kusazōshi

Laura Moretti, Satō Yukiko

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Brill
07 February 2024

Graphic novel & Manga artwork; Literary studies: general; Popular culture

Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”).

Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazōshi to gain comprehensive knowledge of the field. For the specialist, our edited volume marks a turning point in scholarship, uncovering fresh research avenues.

While exploring the powerful effects of the visual-verbal imagination, this collection opens up bold new vistas on the act of reading and advances provocations around comics and manga.

Contributors are: Jaqueline Berndt, Joseph Bills, Michael Emmerich, Adam L. Kern, Fumiko Kobayashi, Frederick Feilden, Laura Moretti, Matsubara Noriko, Satō Satoru, Satō Yukiko, Satoko Shimazaki, Takagi Gen, Tanahashi Masahiro, Ellis Tinios, Tsuda Mayumi and, Glynne Walley.

Edited by: Laura Moretti, Satō Yukiko
Imprint: Brill
Edition: approx. 600 pp.
Volume: 77
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1.339kg
ISBN: 9789004504103
ISBN 10: 9004504109
Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Pages: 660
Publication Date: 07 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laura Moretti, Ph.D. (2003) is Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely in English and Japanese, including Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2020). Satō Yukiko, Ph.D. (2000) is Professor at The University of Tokyo. She is one of the leading scholars working on early modern Japanese graphic narratives. She has several publications, including Edo no e’iri shōsetsu: Gōkan no sekai (Perikansha, 2001).

Reviews for Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi

""Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko should hold an exalted space in the world of comics scholarship for what they have contributed with Graphic Narratives… .They have lifted kusazōshi from a brief footnote to a full-fledged area of study, pulling together a mix of Japanese and Western scholars, bent on providing varying perspectives on the medium, from different approaches, backed up with much first-hand information, sourced from plenty of primary and secondary materials, fully explained in the text, footnotes, and explanatory notes to the reader, and profusely- and brilliantly-illustrated. What more can one ask for? A masterful job!"" - John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art Blog, July 6, 2024