{"product_id":"genjis-world-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-9789004233539","title":"Genjis World in Japanese Woodblock Prints","description":"\u003cp\u003eGenjis world in Japanese Woodblock Prints provides the first comprehensive overview of Genji prints  an exceptional subject and publishing phenomenon among Japanese woodblock prints that gives insight into nineteenth-century Japan and its art practices. In the late 1820s  when the writer Rytei Tanehiko (17831842)  the print designer and book illustrator Utagawa Kunisada (17861865) and the publisher Tsuruya Kiemon sat down together in Edo to plot the inaugural chapter of the serial novel A Rustic Genji by a Fraudulent Murasaki (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji)  it is doubtful that any one of them envisioned that their actions would generate a new genre in Japanese woodblock prints that would flourish until the turn of the century  Genjie (Genji pictures). During these sixty years  over 1 300 original designs were created  of which many were very popular at their time of release. The story of A Rustic Genji  set in fifteenth-century Japan  is in many respects drawn from Murasaki Shikibus (c.9731014\/25) classic novel The Tale of Genji from the early eleventh century. As the foremost collection of prints of this subject  the extensive holdings of Paulette and Jack Lantz provided the majority of images necessary for this publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666095038517,"sku":"ByrdShop_9004233539","price":369.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9789004233539.jpg?v=1782419175","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/genjis-world-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-9789004233539","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}