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Exhibit at Green: The Pleasures of Edo Period Books: Illustrated Volumes
from Stanford's East Asia Library
The Stanford University Libraries, Department
of Special Collections, is pleased
to announce the exhibition The Pleasures of Edo Period
Books: Illustrated Volumes from Stanford's East Asia Library. This small
exhibition highlights the early-modern Japanese illustrated book collection
at the Stanford University Libraries' East Asia Library. Each volume included
in the exhibition represents aspects of Japanese culture during the Edo period
(1600-1868), when printing
houses produced massive quantities of volumes still admired for their form
and content.
The Pleasures of Edo Period Books will be on view
at Stanford University's Cecil H. Green Library, Peterson Gallery, second
floor of the Bing Wing from April 29 through June 19, 2005. The exhibition
is free and open to the public.
The Pleasures of Edo Period Books: Illustrated Volumes
from Stanford's East Asia Library is the work of students in the winter
2005, advanced graduate seminar in Japanese literature of the Edo period,
taught by Professor Jim Reichert. The Edo period (1600-1868), is noteworthy
in Japanese history for its highly sophisticated print culture. The seminar
focused on various aspects of this commercial book trade. For a final project,
the students organized this exhibition.
The volumes on display are from the Stanford East Asia Library's special
collection of early-modern Japanese illustrated books. The collection, acquired
in 1984, consists of more than 500 titles totaling approximately 2,000 volumes.
Each of the four cases in this exhibition represents an aspect of Japanese
culture during the Edo period: Social Stratification in
the 'Tokogawa Era' contains images representing different aspects of the
Edo period class system; Literacy and the Marketing of
Information offers
illustrations from educational and informational books; Religion
and the Supernatural presents images of ghosts and deities; and Edo
Arts and Entertainment provides a glimpse of popular recreational activities.
Hours: Exhibit cases are
illuminated Monday-Friday from 10 am to 6 pm; Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm,
and Sunday 1 to 6 pm. The gallery is accessible whenever Green Library is open
and hours vary with the academic schedule. For library hours, call 650-723-0931
or see http://library.stanford.edu/libraries_collections/hours_locations.html.
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