Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market

266 Pages·2014·7.62 MB·English

by  Julie Nelson Davis

PARTNERS in PRINT
Artistic Collaboration
and the Ukiyo-e Market
Julie Nelson Davis
Partners in Print

Partners in Print
artistic Collaboration
and the Ukiyo-e Market
Julie Nelson Davis
University of Hawai‘i Press
Honolulu
© 2015 University of Hawai‘i Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Julie Nelson, author.
Partners in print : artistic collaboration and the ukiyo-e market /
Julie Nelson Davis.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8248-3938-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Ukiyoe—Case studies. 2. Color prints, Japanese—Edo
period, 1600–1868—Case studies. 3. Artistic collaboration—
Japan—History—18th century—Case studies. I. Title.
N7353.6.U35D38 2015
769.952’09033—dc23
2014026817
University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper
and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the
Council on Library Resources.
Designed by Mardee Melton
Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc.
For Ray and Camille

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

IllustratIons
1.1. Toriyama Sekien, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Toriyama Sekichūjo. Untitled, ca. 1786.
1.2. Kano Chikanobu. Scroll of Comic Pictures (Giga zukan), late seventeenth to early
eighteenth centuries.
1.3. Hishikawa Moronobu. Illustration of lion and peony on Chinese-style screen, from
Collected Designs for Standing Screens and Hanging Scrolls (Byōbu kakemono ezukushi),
1701.
1.4. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of Hotei, from Echoes of Bird Mountain (Toriyama biko),
1773.
1.5. Toriyama Sekien, Illustration of a winter landscape, from Echoes of Bird Mountain
(Toriyama biko), 1773.
1.6. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of a scene from the Tale of Genji, from Echoes of Bird
Mountain (Toriyama biko), 1773.
1.7. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of a locust and eggplant, from Echoes of Bird Mountain
(Toriyama biko), 1773.
1.8. Toriyama Sekien, Illustration of a peacock, peahen, and peonies, from Echoes of Bird
Mountain (Toriyama biko), 1773.
1.9. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of a peacock, peahen, and peonies, continued, from
Echoes of Bird Mountain (Toriyama biko), 1773.
1.10. Toriyama Sekien, Illustration of Emperor Shun, from Painting Comparisons (Kaiji
hiken), 1778.
1.11. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of Emperor Nintoku, from Painting Comparisons (Kaiji
hiken), 1778.
1.12. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of the Queen Mother of the West, from Painting
Comparisons (Kaiji hiken), 1778.
1.13. Toriyama Sekien. Illustration of the Tamatsushima princess, from Painting
Comparisons (Kaiji hiken), 1778.
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