Surimono (literally ‘printed things’) constitute one of the most delicate genres in Japanese printmaking. This genre fascinates because it combines poetry and image and because it presents a pictorial puzzle, which provides the viewer with a particular insight into the intellectual and literary world of late 18th- and early 19th-century Edo (today’s Tokyo).
The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is home to one of the most important collections of surimono in the world and the true beauty of the collection can now be appreciated in full, with all the prints illustrated in colour for the first time.
- ISBN10 9074822401
- ISBN13 9789074822404
- Publish Date 3 December 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Brill
- Imprint Hotei Publishing,The Netherlands
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 332
- Language English
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