Japanese prints reading list

General

Chibbett, David, The History of Japanese Printing and Book Illustration.  Kodansha International, 1977. ISBN. 0870112880

Crighton, Robin  The Floating World: Japanese Popular Prints 1700-1900. HMSO, London, 1973. 0-11290-190-5

Earle, Joe An Introduction to Japanese Prints. V&A Museum, London, 1980

Earle, Joe  Victoria and Albert Museum. Journal of the International Netsuke Collector's Society, Vol.5, No.4, 1979, pp.27-37

Faulkner, Rupert  Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: The European Collections. Ukiyoe from the V&A, Kodansha International, 1991, 4-7700-2387-1

Faulkner, Rupert  Japanese Stencils. Webb & Bower, Michael Joseph Limited and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1988, 0-86350-215-6

Hajek, Lubek, Japanese Graphic Art. Octopus, London, 1976

Hartley, Craig, Prints of the Floating World: Japanese Woodcuts from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1997. ISBN. 0853316988

Hillier, Jack, Japanese Colour Prints. Phaidon, London, 1966. ISBN. 0714815349

Hillier, Jack, Catalogue of Japanese Paintings and Prints in the Collection of Mr and Mrs R.P. Gale.  Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1970

Hillier, Jack, Japanese Prints and Drawings from the Vever Collection. Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1976

Hutt, Julia  Zeshin's Calendar Inro in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Journal of the International Netsuke Collector's Society, Vol.7, No.2, 1979, pp.26-34

Illing, Richard, The Art of Japanese Prints. New York, 1983

Jackson, Anna  Imagining Japan: The Victorian Acquisition and Perception of Japanese Culture . Journal of Design History, Vol 5 No 4, 1992, pp.245-256

Lane, Richard, Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print.  Oxford University Press, 1978

Narazaki, Muneshige, The Japanese Print: Its Evolution and Essence.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1966

Narasaki, Muneshige ( ed ) Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, vol. 5, The Victoria & Albert Museum. Kodansha 1989

Narasaki, Muneshige ( ed )  Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections, vol. 4, The Victoria & Albert Museum. Kodansha 1988

Newland, Amy & Uhlenbeck, Chris (ed), Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints.  London, 1990

Roberts, Laurance P.,  A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo, 1976

Smith, Lawrence (ed), Ukiyoe Images of Unknown Japan. British Museum Publications, London, 1988. ISBN. 0714114383

Strange, E F  Japanese Colour Prints.  HMSO, London, 1931

Stewart, Basil, Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour Prints.  Minkoff, Geneva, 1973

Books Illustrated almost entirely or mainly by prints in the V&A

Crighton, Robin, The Floating World: Japanese Popular Prints 1700-1900. HMSO, London, 1973. ISBN. 0112901905

Dawes, Leonard G  Catalogue of Japanese Illustrated Books (in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Victoria & Albert Museum).  HMSO, London, 1972
    
Earle, Joe, An Introduction to Japanese Prints. V&A Museum, London, 1980. ISBN. 0273014544

Faulkner, Rupert & Lane, Richard, Masterpieces of Japanese Prints, The European Collections; Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1991. ISBN. 1 85177 101 8

Faulkner, Rupert, Hiroshige Fan Prints. V&A Publications, London, 2001. ISBN. 1851773320

Faulkner, Rupert  Computer Cataloguing of the Japanese Print Collection at the V&A. Proceedings of the British Association of Japanese Studies, Vol.11 (1986), 1988, pp.151-155

Narazaki, Muneshige (ed), Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections: Volume 4 and 5: The Victoria and Albert Museum.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1988 and 1989. SIBN. 0870118846

Strange, Edward F.,  Japanese Colour Prints. HMSO, London, 1931

Books on Modern Prints

Blakemore, Frances, Who's Who in Modern Japanese Prints. Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1983. ISBN. 0834801019

Merritt, Helen, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1990.  ISBN. 082481200X

Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1992. ISBN. 082481732X

Michener, James, The Modern Japanese Print: An Appreciation. Tokyo, 1982

Smith, Lawrence, The Japanese Print Since 1900; Old dreams and new visions.  British Museum Publications, 1983

South Bank Centre, London and the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokyo  The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1991. ISBN. 1853320714

Specialised Books (other than those on individual artists)

Bickford, Lawrence, Sumo and the Woodblock Print Masters.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York and London, 1994. ISBN. 4770017529

Chaikin, Nathan, The Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). 1983

Clark, Timothy and Morse, Anne Nishimura  The Dawn of the Floating World, 1650-1765: Early Ukiyo-e from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002. ISBN. 1903973031
and ISBN. 1903973007

Fagioli, Marco, Shunga, Images of Printemps; L'Eroticisme dans l'Estampe Japonaise. 1989

Forrer, Matthi  Egoyomi and Surimono - Their Development and History.  Amsterdam, 1979. ISBN. 907026501X

Gerstle, C. Andrew  Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, 1780-1830. British Museum, London, 2005. ISBN. 9780714124308 and ISBN. 0714124303

Halford, Aubrey S. & Giovanna M.  The Kabuki Handbook. Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1956

Ishida, M., Japanese Buddhist Prints.  Kodansha  International, Tokyo, 1964

Keyes, Roger and Mizushima, Keiko, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973

Link, Howard A.  Primitive Ukiyo-e from the James A. Michener Collection in the Honolulu Academy of Arts.  University Press of Hawaii, 1980

Meech-Pekarik, Julia  The World of the Meiji Print; Impressions of a New Civilization.  Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1986

Mody, N.H.N.  A Collection of Nagasaki Paintings and Prints.  Tuttle, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1969. ISBN. 0834802090

Philadelphia Museum  Foreigners in Japan; Yokohama and Related Woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 1972

Robinson, Basil  Japanese Landscape Prints of the 19th Century.  Faber & Faber, 1957

Schwaab, Dean J.  Osaka Prints.  Rizzoli, New York, 1989. ISBN. 0719547318

Waterhouse, David  Images of 18th Century Japan.  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975

Books on Individual Artists

Harunobu

Hillier, Jack, Suzuki Harunobu. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970

Takahashi, S., Harunobu.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1968

Waterhouse, David, Harunobu and His Age. British Museum, London, 1964

Hiroshige

Bicknell, Julian, Hiroshige in Tokyo: The Floating World of Edo.  Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1994. ISBN. 1566408032

Faulkner, Rupert  Hiroshige Fan Prints. V&A Publications, London, 2001, 1-85177-332-0

Forrer, Matthi, Hiroshige: Images of Mist, Rain, Moon and Snow.  Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1997. ISBN. 3791318608

Narazaki, Muneshige, Hiroshige: Famous Views.  Kodansha  International, Tokyo, 1968

Robinson, Basil, Hiroshige. Blandford Press, London, 1964

Strange, Edward F., The Colour Prints of Hiroshige.  London, 1925

Strange, E F  The Colour Prints of Hiroshige.  HMSO, London, 1925

Hokusai

Carpenter, John T (ed), Hokusai and his Age. Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 2005. ISBN. 9074822576

Forrer, Matthi, Hokusai: Prints and Drawings.  Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1991

Hillier, Jack, Hokusai Drawings. London, 1966

Hillier, Jack, The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration. University of California Press, 1980

Lane, Richard, Hokusai: Life and Work. London, 1989

Kiyochika

Smith, Henry D., Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan.  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988. ISBN. 0899510736

Kunisada

Izzard, Sebastian, Kunisada's World. Japan Society, New York, 1993. ISBN. 0913304379

Kuniyoshi

Forrer, Matthi, Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.  Leiden, 1988. ISBN. 901205995X

Robinson, Basil, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints.  Phaidon, London, 1982

Schaap, Robert (ed), Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi, 1797-1861. Hotei Publishing, Leiden, 1998

Springfield Mass. Museum of Fine Arts  The Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. 1968

Utamaro

Asano, Shugo and Clark, Timothy  The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro. British Museum, London, 1995. ISBN. 071411474X

Hillier, Jack  Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings. Phaidon, London, 1961

Narazaki, Muneshige and Kikuchi, Sadao  Utamaro. Kodansha, Tokyo, 1968

Yoshitoshi

Van den Ing, Eric & Schaap, Robert  Beauty & Violence: Japanese Prints by Yoshitoshi 1839-1892. Society for Japanese Arts, The Netherlands, 1992

Van Rappard-Boon, C.  The Age of Yoshitoshi.  Amsterdam, 1990. ISBN. 906179112X