Geisha
Women of Japan's Flower & Willow World
This is the most comprehensive assembly of historic geisha images ever compiled in a book. Over 500 exquisite views - drawn from postcards produced primarily between 1900 and 1940 - illustrate the rarified world of Japan's now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. Soon after the West pried open Japan's doors in 1853, stories about Japan began to circulate wildly through Victorian societies. Geisha quickly attained folkloric status as both imagery, widely traveled stage productions, and titillating novels spread their fame, and postcards bearing their images circulated the globe. Enter a world dripping in symbolism, elevated by accomplishment.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7643-2153-5
- EAN: 9780764321535
- Produktnummer: 4132436
- Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H30.4 cm x B22.8 cm 2'100 g
- Abbildungen: 582 color and b/w photos
- Gewicht: 2100
Über den Autor
LouLou is Lou Marshall, an illustrator, muralist, and product designer specializing in creating happy havens for children. Her commercial and residential one-of-a-kind environments have been featured on national television and in magazines and books. Tina Skinner has authored lots of big, serious books about architecture and design for adults. This is her first book to bring the joy and beauty of architecture to children.
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