Japan's classical tradition underpinned almost every area of cultural production throughout the early modern or Edo period (1615-1868). This book offers the first in-depth account of three aesthetic strategies--unexpected juxtaposition (mitate), casual adaptation (yatsushi) and modern standards of style (fūryū)--that shaped the way Edo popular culture and particularly the Floating World absorbed and responded to this force of cultural authority. Combining visual, documentary and literary evidence, Alfred Haft here explores why the three strategies were central...
Japan's classical tradition underpinned almost every area of cultural production throughout the early modern or Edo period (1615-1868). This book offe...
