Contains over five hundred color reproductions of woodblock prints by various Japanese artists and publishers covering the history of this art form from its beginnings in the 1680s until 1900.
Showcases two hundred pieces of Japanese art created during the Edo period from the 2007 Price collection displayed at the Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., featuring screens, hanging scrolls, fans, and more.
A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book.
A collection of haiku by seventeenth-century Japanese writer Matsuo Bash?, with literal translations into English and an overview of the poetic form and its emphasis on nature as a theme and extensive notes on the allusions and references of each piece.
Presents Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho's epic account of his five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo.
