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• Title:Japan awakens : woodblock prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) / Barry Till.
  
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• Author/Creator:Till, Barry, 1951- author.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco : Pomegranate, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NE1322 .H55 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art Gallery of Greater Victoria--Catalogs.
  Color prints, Japanese--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Catalogs.
  Ukiyoe--Catalogs.
  Art and society--Japan--History--19th century--Catalogs.
  Art and society--Japan--History--20th century--Catalogs.
  Color prints--British Columbia--Victoria--Catalogs.
  
• Description:127 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780764946356 (hardcover)
  0764946358 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Political restoration, cultural transformation : The Imperial line ; Restoration of Imperial rule ; The last samurai ; Appearance ; Education ; Industry ; Transportation & communication ; Architecture ; First constitution ; Religion ; Japan's early modern wars ; Death of Emperor Meiji
  Japan's artists look west : Woodblock prints ; Prints of the Emperor & Empress ; Glorifying war ; Prints used to illustrate newspapers, magazines & novels
  Eminent woodblock print artists of the Meiji period ; Meiji lithographs ; Epilogue
  The prints : Yokohama ; Emperor & Empress ; Appearance ; Transportation & architecture ; War ; Newspaper inserts ; Lithographs.