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2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 Japanese Art Japanese Contents Japanese Art at Brill Hotei Publishing, established in Leiden in 1998, became an imprint of Brill in 2006. As part of Brill’s Asian Studies program, Hotei specializes in books related to Japanese art, and publishes exhibition catalogues and lavishly-illustrated books on established and lesser-known Japanese print artists and painters, as well as a variety of other facets of Japanese art and culture. Hotei Publishing works with an international team of museum curators, art historians and specialist authors. Recent projects that illustrate Hotei’s close cooperation with museums are Reading Surimono, The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, published in association with the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and the catalog of the magnificent surimono holdings in the See page 9 See page 5 See page 8 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, which will appear shortly. Japanese art will also have a prominent place in Brill’s new academic book series Japanese Visual Culture. The inaugural volume of the series will be Chōgen, The Holy One, And The Restoration Of Japanese Buddhist art by the eminent scholar John Rosenfield. With a strong editorial board, led by John T. Carpenter (SOAS, University of London/Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) we aim to publish groundbreaking research on Japanese art and visual culture in an attractive format. We hope you will enjoy browsing our catalog and will visit brill.nl for more detailed and updated information on Hotei Publishing’s titles. Our own webpage at brill.nl/hotei features background information and news. If you would like to receive the quarterly e-bulletin from Hotei, please contact us at [email protected]. See page 6 See page 4 See page 12 Yours sincerely, Inge Klompmakers, 3 New and Recently-Published Titles Acquisitions Editor, Japan Studies & Hotei Publishing 8 Japanese Prints 16 Japan and the West 17 Japanese Art – Miscellaneous 18 Academic Series New and Recently-Published Titles HO T EI PUBLIS H I N Surimono in the Rijksmuseum, Crows, Cranes & Camellias Chōgen, The Holy One, G O VE Amsterdam (Expanded Reprint) And The Restoration R VIEW The natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 Matthi Forrer, Leiden University/ Of Japanese Buddhist Art National Museum of Ethnology Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perrée and Robert Schaap John Rosenfield, Harvard University, Professor Emeritus • Spring 2010 3 • ISBN 978 90 74822 40 4 • December 2009 • December 2009 Hardback B • (320 pp., 600 color & b/w illus.) • ISBN 978 90 04 18106 9 • ISBN 978 90 04 16864 0 R IL • List price EUR 110.- / US$ 163.- • List price EUR 95.- / US$ 140.- • Cloth with dustjacket L 2009/2010 • List price EUR 93.- / US$ 137.- This catalogue includes more than 600 surimono drawn from The work of print artist Ohara Koson (1877-1945) mainly • Japanese Visual Culture, 1 the splendid Amsterdam Rijksmuseum collection of Japanese consists of prints of birds and flowers, characterized by their prints. surimono (lit. ‘printed object’) are privately published peaceful charm. This book about Koson is the first Western Chōgen, The Holy One deals with the efforts of the Japanese monk prints inscribed with a dedication or poem that reflects upon publication of his oeuvre of prints and paintings. It provides all Shunjōbō Chōgen (1221-1206) to restore major buildings and everyday themes. All surimono are reproduced in color along known information on the artist’s life and work, his teachers works of art lost in civil war. It concentrates on the statues and with extensive descriptions by Matthi Forrer. This publication and publishers, facsimiles of his signatures and seals and buildings associated with Chōgen and his followers and this will be an important reference work in the study of surimono. illustrations of an estimated seventy-five percent of his total study places the visual arts of Japan into the ritual and socio- print output, now kept in the splendid collection of Japanese political context of their time. prints in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. First published in 2001, this new edition features an additional chapter on Koson’s oeuvre and designs which have been discovered since the original publication of Crows, Cranes and Camellias. This title is the definitive reference book for Koson collectors. Visit the Hotei Publishing website at brill.nl/hotei Subscribe to the Hotei Publishing e-bulletin at brill.nl/e-bulletins New and Recently-Published Titles 77 77 yo aruki o No one scolds it shikarare mo sezu for roving all night – ume ga ka no a cat on the prowl shita tsuyu ukete returns drenched kaeru koineko in plum-scented dew. —Rokurokuen of Ishii, Awa province 77 HOKKEI a precedent for linking cats with cats. 184 and 185). Since Shunman’s Woman playing with a cat seductive female beauty. seal was added by hand, its position, Behind the woman is a small appearance and clarity vary slightly DATE ca. 1819–20 standing screen decorated with a plum with each impression of the print. SIGNATURE Öju Hokkei ga tree on a pink mica background. The Rokurokuen was the poetry name PRINTER’S SEAL Shunman bright red circular seal reading ‘Höitsu’ of Endö Harutari, an indigo merchant FORMAT shikishiban; 20.4 x 18.8 cm resembles a seal actually used by from the town of Ishii in Awa province VIEW REFERENCES Keyes 1985, no. 109; the artist Sakai Höitsu (1761–1828), (present day Tokushima prefecture on R Chiba 1997, no. 172 best known as the founder of the Edo the island of Shikoku). His business PROVENANCE Haviland 1924; Lusy 273; VE branch of the Rinpa school. Höitsu also had a branch in Hachiöji, Musashi Zurich 158 also had contact with other artists province, close to Edo. Rokurokuen O and literati. A towel with the stylized started to learn kyöka from Rokujuen G A young woman, probably a geisha, character ‘five’, the emblem of the (Ishikawa Masamochi), the head of the dangles a ball decorated with coloured Go-gawa poetry club, is draped over Go-gawa in 1810. He was also a pupil of N I string by a single thread to tease the garment rack to the right. The the Kokugaku (National Studies) scholar H her pet cat. Both the string and the same motif appears around the bowl Motoori Öhira. He assisted Masamochi Reading Surimono fur of the cat are rendered by subtle containing a fukujusö (adonis flower) in the compilation of Gagen shuran, embossing. Having been interrupted plant on the staggered shelf. Below are an important dictionary of classical in her reading, she leans on a kotatsu a tea pot and small hibachi stove. Japanese literary words, published in The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints. (heater-table) covered with a decorated In the lower right corner of the 1819 with a preface by Öhira. quilt. The image of a beautiful woman print, just beneath the black lacquer The poem refers to the theme of a playing with a cat in ukiyo-e prints leg of the clothing rack, is the circular koineko, literally, ‘cat in love’, which is EI PUBLIS and paintings recalls the iconic scene seal of Kubo Shunman, who, besides likened to a man or woman who returns T With a catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection in The Tale of Genji when the pet cat being a talented ukiyo-e painter home from plum blossom viewing with (kara neko) of the Third Princess (Onna and surimono designer, headed a the scent of a lover on his or her sleeve. HO Sannomiya) becomes entangled in the surimono production studio. Shunman The artist illustrated this suggestive cords of a reed shade and inadvertently sometimes produced surimono verse with a woman of the pleasure reveals its mistress to the gaze of designed by other ukiyo-e artists (for quarters seated near a painting of a Edited by John T. Carpenter, nearby courtiers. The scene became example, two surimono by Kunisada, plum tree. SOAS, University of London 4 • December 2008 • ISBN 978 90 04 16841 1 204 HOKKEI • Cloth with dustjacket (432 pp., over 400 colour illus.) • List price EUR 99.- / US$ 147.- 2009/2010 L IL R This full-colour catalogue illustrates and describes over 300 surimono (privately published deluxe Japanese prints) belonging to B the Graphics Collection of the Museum of Design Zurich, which were recently placed on long-term loan to the Museum Rietberg Zurich. Originally bequeathed to the Museum of Design by the Swiss collector Marino Lusy (1880-1954), the collection includes many rare and previously unpublished examples. Edited by John T. Carpenter, with contributions from a distinguished roster of Edo art and literary specialists, this groundbreaking scholarly publication investigates surimono as a hybrid genre combining literature and art. Introductory essays treat issues such as text-image interaction and iconography, poetry and intertextuality, as well as the operation of Kabuki fan clubs and poetry circles in late 18th and early 19th century Japan. Other essays document Lusy’s accomplishments as a talented lithographer inspired by East Asian art, and as an astute collector who acquired prints from Parisian auction houses and dealers in the early 20th century. Translations of kyoka (31-witty verse) that accompany images are given for all prints. The volume also includes a comprehensive index of poets with Japanese characters. This publication is not only indispensable to specialists in ukiyo-e, but has much to offer any reader interested in traditional Japanese art and literature. Visit the Hotei Publishing website at brill.nl/hotei Subscribe to the Hotei Publishing e-bulletin at brill.nl/e-bulletins New and Recently-Published Titles 2_Hiroshige_p057_080.qxd:Hiroshige catalogue 22-9-08 13:06 Pagina 80 3_Hiroshige_p081_108.qxd:Hiroshige catalogue 14-10-08 8:59 Pagina 81 Vertical Tökaidö Vertical Tökaidö Fifty-three famous views [of the Tökaidö] 89.

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