Editor's Introduction

The Making of Japanese Prints

and the History of Ukiyo-e

Chie Hirano

[Baren] Editor's Introduction

Topics covered in this book:

Survey of life in Edo-era Japan.
The artists and artisans involved in making Japanese prints.
A non-technical overview of the traditional Japanese printmaking process.
A general history of Ukiyo-e.

Target audience:

Anyone interested in Japanese prints, the culture in which they existed, and the environment surrounding their production.

These two chapters are extracted from a larger work - a full-scale monograph on the Ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga. The author used these chapters to supply a background for the rest of the work, and to give the reader a general understanding of life in that era.