This lavishly illustrated, oversized (17" x 10") book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether showing semi-nude women abalone divers struggling with their catch while a male crew of shriveled old salts leers from a nearby boat, or the carefree rapture of a leisurely group of men and women observing cherry blossoms at their peak, Hokusai captures, with drama and delicacy, sublime and ridiculous ...
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This lavishly illustrated, oversized (17" x 10") book brings together the last major print series of the celebrated Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849) and the Japanese poetry that inspired these beautiful prints. Whether showing semi-nude women abalone divers struggling with their catch while a male crew of shriveled old salts leers from a nearby boat, or the carefree rapture of a leisurely group of men and women observing cherry blossoms at their peak, Hokusai captures, with drama and delicacy, sublime and ridiculous states. The artist's simplicity, though deceptive, is also remarkable: he illustrates a poem about a lovers' seaside tryst with a magnificently imposing yet unadorned sailing vessel, its small window offering a coy glimpse of the fortunate couple inside. Each of the 111 color prints (as well as 41 black-and-white sketches of projected prints apparently never completed) is accompanied by the poem, in Japanese and English, a biographical note on the poet and by Peter Morse's comments on literary and artistic intention and execution.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 10x1x16; 1989. Pages five to twelve are bound upside down. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Oblong 4to. 222pp.
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Good in Fair jacket. Size: 10x1x16; Oversized hardcover book. Solid copy with a large amount of underlined text and writing in the margins. Jacket has mild surface and considerable edge wear. Binding is tight and square, small bump to bottom spine. Books, box sets, and items other than standard jewel case CDs and DVDs that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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Used-Like New. The advice offered by the lively images from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries featured here is sometimes comically anachronistic, but is often evidence of a remarkably modern sophistication concerning balanced eating, sleeping, and exercising. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! ! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
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Very good in Very good jacket. Very good condition. First edition. Light shelf wear. Jacket in very good condition with small tears on front corners and a small chunk missing on lower back cover.
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New copy: fine copy in fine dustjacket; very good (+) shipping box, clean w/ light age-toning in spots; lightly bumped on bottom corners, opened cleanly along backside enfoldment, reclosed. Sm. 4to 10"x 13 1/2" [oblong] red-orange cloth w/ illus dust jacket, still shrinkwrapped in original white Braziller corrugated shipping carton (10 3/16'x 16 1/2"). jacket art by Hokusai.