Japanese Prints

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	• Japanese Prints (Taschen 25th Anniversary) Gabriele Fahr-Becker Taschen, 2007 - 200 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Typos

The two essays included at the beginning of the book, and especially the one by Thomas Zacharias, are excellent. The prints are carefully chosen with truly wonderful commentary. For its price, this book is indeed a great bargain.

However, maybe because I love to love books too, I was very disappointed by several typos (Bhuddism, public instead of pubic hair, punctuation and one stylistic error). Too bad, since the overall quality of the book is fantastic and it is incomprehensible to me how these typos could have been overlooked.

Insane bargain

Beautiful reproductions and informative text.

For ten bucks!

A great introduction to the floating world.

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Japanese Prints

I don't really know anything about Japanese artwork or famous artists-I bought this book a couple years ago for the pictures of the Samurai. Because of this, all I can really say is that it is a well laid-out and attractive book full of beautiful Japanese art depicting all kinds of scenes and subjects. It makes a great coffee-table book.

Beautiful!

This is a really good book on the ukiyo-e art of Japan. The more celebrated of artists are represented, including Hiroshige and his views of Edo (Tokyo), Hokusai's Mt. Fuji work, and Utamaro's geishas. Taschen is always good with its reproductions and the art looks great on the page. There are good essays on the origins and history of the style, along with a glossary to help with unfamiliar terms. This is a very beautiful art form that is represented well in this collection of works.

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