By Matsunosuke Nishiyama, Gerald Groemer

Nishiyama Matsunosuke is among the most vital historians of Tokugawa (Edo) pop culture, but beforehand his paintings hasn't ever been translated right into a Western language. Edo tradition provides a range of Nishiyama's writings that serves not just to supply an outstanding advent to Tokugawa cultural heritage but additionally to fill many gaps in our wisdom of the lifestyle and diversions of the city population of the time. Many essays concentrate on crucial topic of Nishiyama's paintings: the 17th to 19th centuries as a time of appropriation and improvement of Japan's tradition by means of its city commoners.

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