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    Japanese popular prints : from votive slips to playing cards / Rebecca Salter.

    • Title:Japanese popular prints : from votive slips to playing cards / Rebecca Salter.
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    • Author/Creator:Salter, Rebecca, 1955-
    • Published/Created:Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Wood-engraving, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Themes, motives.
      Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Themes, motives.
      Printed ephemera--Japan.
    • Description:208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:"A Latitude 20 book."
      Includes bibliographical references (page 207) and index.
    • ISBN:9780824830830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0824830830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:History, method, context
      brief history of printing in Japan
      woodblock technique
      Edo society
      art of play
      Knowledge, news, views
      Books
      Calendars : koyomi
      Programmes and lists : banzuke and zukushi
      News-sheets : kawaraban and shinbun nishiki-e
      art of travel - maps, guides and gazetteers
      Advertising : hikifuda
      outside world : Nagasaki-e, Yokohama-e and saya-e
      Faith, fortune, general well-being
      Votive slips and exchange slips : senjafuda and kokanfuda
      Catfish prints : namazu-e
      Medicine prints : baiyaku-e
      Smallpox prints and measles prints : hoso-e and hashika-e
      Obituary prints : shini-e
      Leisure, pleasure, play
      Playful prints and toy prints : asobi-e and omocha-e
      Board games : sugoroku, jurokumusashi and menko
      Playing cards : karuta
      Decorative papers : karakami, chiyogami, pochibukuro and futo
      And finally ...
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