Sharaku's Japanese Theater Prints

An Illustrated Guide to His Complete Work

• Author(s): Harold Gould Henderson, Louis Vernon Ledoux,
• Publisher: Dover
• Pages: 337
• ISBN_10: 048624704X
  ISBN_13: 9780486247045
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Asian / Japanese , Crafts & Hobbies / Printmaking & Stamping ,

Description:... "Little is known of the acclaimed 18th-century Japanese artist Toshusai Sharaku. This impressive volume is the definitive illustrated catalog of the surviving works of this legendary figure -- offering connoisseurs and collectors clear black-and-white reproductions of 146 prints and drawings. Each print is accompanied by extensive commnetary providing details of background and coloring; inofrmation on states and impressions; and identifications of actors and other subjects, and roles depicted. Also included are succinct plot summaries of the plays in which Sharaku's subjects appeared. Here is a priceless record of Japan's popular Kabuki theater."--from publisher