Cover illustration: Image created by editing detail from 1v–2r of Shikitei Sanba (author), Utagawa Toyokuni (illustrator), Kusazōshi gochō no yume: Shikitei Sanba unubore kagami (Edo: Nishinomiya Shinroku, 1801). National Diet Library, Tokyo. Shelf mark: 207-498. DOI: 10.11501/9892923. Cover artwork: Sandra Karakas.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies), editor. | Satō, Yukiko, 1972- editor.
Title: Graphic narratives from early modern Japan : the world of kusazōshi / edited by Laura Moretti, Satō Yukiko.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Brill’s Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; volume 77 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023050865 (print) | LCCN 2023050866 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004504103 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004691209 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Kusazōshi--History and criticism. | Japanese fiction--Edo period, 1600-1868--History and criticism. | Illustration of books--Japan--Edo period, 1600-1868. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Essays.
Classification: LCC PL747.35 .G73 2024 (print) | LCC PL747.35 (ebook) | DDC 895.63/309--dc23/eng/20231204
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023050865
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ISSN 0925-6512
ISBN 978-90-04-50410-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69120-9 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004691209
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