Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan by Adam L. Kern

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Adam L. Kern

567 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art comics design history
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in ...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 2 ratings

Average rating

4.0

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.