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Japanese Books: History and Development

Books

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Hillier, J. (1987). The art of the Japanese book / Jack Hillier. London: Sotheby’s Publications.

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Keyes, R. (2006). Ehon : the artist and the book in Japan . New York: New York Public Library.

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The printed image, Forrer, M., & Schlombs, A. (2018). The printed image: The flowering of Japan's wood block print culture. Köln: Walther König.

Carpenter, J. (2015). How and Why the Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books Came to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Impressions, (36), 144-157. Retrieved April 8, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/24869060

Hioki, K. (2009). Characteristics of Japanese Block Printed Books in the Edo Period: 1603–1867. Retrieved from

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/58

Matsubara, T., Lin, Z., Hong, S., & Qiu, S. (2009). Selective annotative bibliography of Japanese rare books collection of National Taiwan University Library (Chu ban.). Taibei Shi: Guo li Taiwan da xue tu shu guan.

Nicole Fabricand-Person. (2011). The Tōkaidō Road: Journeys through Japanese Books and Prints in the Collections of Princeton University. The Princeton University Library Chronicle, 73(1), 68-99. Retrieved April 8, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/10.25290/prinunivlibrchro.73.1.0068

Saunders, R., & Saunders, R. (2010). Japanese rare books at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Arts of Asia, 40(6), 100–107. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1320359059/

Sewell, Robert G. (1978). Old and Rare Japanese Books in U.S. Collections. College and Research Libraries 39(3), 197-206.

Yamamoto, S., Osawa, T., & Yamamoto, S. (2016). Labor saving for reprinting Japanese rare classical books : The development of the new method for OCR technology including kana and kanji characters in cursive style. Journal of Information Processing and Management, 58(11), 819–827. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1808121239/

Articles

Additional Resources

"The Art of Japanese Books: Uses, Materials, and Block-Printing Techniques" Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/watson/art-of-japanese-books-part-1

"Japanese Illustrated Books from the Thomas J Watson Library Digital Collections", Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/watson-digital-collections/japanese-illustrated-books

"The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book", The Gerhard Pulverer Collection: https://pulverer.si.edu/

"Japanese Illustrated Books from the Late Edo Period" University of Wisconsin, Madison: https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/arts/edoart/

Japanese Special Collections

Japanese Special Collections

Japanese Special Collections

"The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book", The Gerhard Pulverer Collection: https://pulverer.si.edu/

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"The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book", The Gerhard Pulverer Collection: https://pulverer.si.edu/