Chapter 2. Picturing Beauties: Print Designers, Publishers, and a Mirror of the Yoshiwara

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: The Floating World and Its Artistic Networks 1
6. Chapter 1. Teaching the Art of Painting through Print: A Master Painter, His Students, and the Illustrated Book 20
7. Chapter 2. Picturing Beauties: Print Designers, Publishers, and a Mirror of the Yoshiwara 61
8. Chapter 3. Unrolling Pictures for the Erotic Imagination: A Designer, His Publisher, and The Scroll of the Sleeve 108
9. Chapter 4. Making Dogma into Comedy: A Writer and an Illustrator Send Up Religion in a Popular Book 143
10. Conclusion: Reconsidering Collaboration and Ukiyo Art Worlds 185
11. Notes 195
12. Works Cited 223
13. Index 235
14. About the Author 245