The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian...

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Sadako Ohki Adam Haliburton

The Private World of Surimono

Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection

Sadako Ohki, Adam Haliburton

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Yale University Press
26 May 2020

History of Art & Design Styles; Prints & printmaking; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Asian history

A detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetry

This beautiful volume celebrates the tradition of the Japanese surimono print. Produced from around 1800 until 1840, during the Edo period, surimono (“printed things” in Japanese) combine intricate artwork and playful poetry, and their small print runs and exclusive audiences allowed for lavish yet subtle surface treatments, such as embossing and gilding. Enjoyed for their learned allusions to literature and contemporary culture, surimono continue to delight and perplex scholars with their visual puns and wordplay. Imagery ranges from delicate, domestic still lifes to spirited vignettes of the natural world, while the poems are often lighthearted takes on the classical Japanese waka form. With its rich text and scholarly apparatus—including names and titles in kanji characters as well as transliterations and translations of the poems on the catalogued prints—The Private World of Surimono serves as a critical resource for scholars of Japanese art and history and offers general readers insight into this rare and innovative print form.

Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

By: Sadako Ohki, Adam Haliburton
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 292mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.588kg
ISBN: 9780300247114
ISBN 10: 0300247117
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 26 May 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sadako Ohki is the Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Reviews for The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection

“With detailed and erudite entries on 60 prints . . . the catalogue is beautifully produced, befitting the subject matter.”—John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art