Timon Screech: 2 books
Shogun's Painted Culture
Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States, 1760-1829
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu, who played a key role in defining what we think of as Japanese culture today. Aware of how visual representations could support or undermine...
Sex and the Floating World
Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820 - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet, prior to Tim Screech’s definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts...