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The legendary masterpieces of Hokusai-fifteen volumes in a single chunky book. Hokusai Manga is one of the masterpieces by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a master of Ukiyo-e art, depicting ordinary people s lives, animals, plants, landscapes and human figures, historical and supernatural, even demons and monsters, as if it were a visual encyclopedia, amounting to fifteen volumes. Hokusai Manga turned out to be very popular among every class of people, from feudal lords to the general public, and became a long time best-seller in the Edo period. This book selects pieces from each volume and compiles them into one charming book.
The original masterpiece spread throughout Japan and flowed into Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century, where it had a striking impact on artists, including Impressionists Manet, Monet, Degas, and others. The artistic movement Japonisme began in part due to its influence.
- Sales Rank: #775721 in Books
- Published on: 2011-10-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.99" h x 2.28" w x 8.35" l, 4.29 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 696 pages
About the Author
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter of the Edo period, and best-known as the author of the woodblock print series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji".
Kazuya Takaoka was born in Kyoto in 1945. As a graphic designer, he has received many outstanding awards, including the Gold Medal at the Japan Graphic Design Exhibition and the Gourmond World Cookbook Award for Best Cookbook Design. Among his works include Noh: Classical Japanese Performing Art published by PIE BOOKS.
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Ambitious but disappointing edition of important work
By Rich
When I first heard this edition of Hokusai's Manga was coming out, I was thrilled. There have been several attempts to print hilights of this massive ukiyo-e work, with varying degrees of success. After the French book published in 2007, I was really hoping that level of quality would be brought to this much larger collection of panels. Sadly, the truism that 'Less is more' still stands; at least in regards to this edition.
I hadn't taken note of the size indicated for the book before I saw it, so I was already wary seeing how much larger it was than the original Manga. On opening it to one of the true reproduction spreads (more on that in a moment), I saw the plates were in fact reproduced actual size. The remaining space was taken up by a massive margin of perhaps three inches, and a garish, heavy, double red outline around the art itself. The images themselves were decent, with good solidity to the keyblock blacks and fairly smooth capturing of the gray and peach plates. Not quite the quality of the French collection, which even captured the paper tone, but decent, and maybe a bit better than the massive, complete 900 page edition printed in Japan. But why the large size?
I started flipping through the book, and realized it wasn't simply a straightforward reproduction of the original pages. Perhaps half of the edition is made up of massive enlargements of panels in glaring red ink, and even individual characters blown up even larger. Not sure what the designer's intent was here, but I think it does a disservice to the original work. If there were already an affordable, large collection of the Manga available, I might understand more. Here and there, blowing up the characters helps bring emphasis to the varying thickness of line Hokusai and the carvers used. But to fill up so many pages this way is a distraction.
So for Hokusai fans hoping for 690 pages of faithful reproductions, you will be disappointed. I would recommend the Japanese edition from Shogakukan, which I bought for around $145. It has the entire contents of all 15 Manga volumes, fairly well printed. The blacks could be better in spots and the grays and peaches can get splotchy but I don't know how much of that is due to the publisher and how much involves the state of the original wookblock editions they had access to. Because each volume was originally printed by hand, the quality of the prints are dependent on how well the individuals burnished the paper onto the inked blocks (they used a pad called a baren, which was moved in swirls over the back of the sheets).
There is also Michener's "Hokusai Sketchbooks" from 1958. Here, to solve the cost issue of trying to replicate the original three colors using a modern four-color press, the art was shot high-contrast to separate out the blacks. The gray and peach inks were then replicated as mixed inks. The effect is a bit different from the original books, but still decent. The paperback editions by Unsodo of Japan aren't very good, but they do start out with 16 accurately printed spreads, on glossy paper. It then devolves into high-contrast reproductions of the pages with no supporting tone at all. Many of the original spreads are printed small, with four on one page. The French edition is still the best, though sadly short.
Currently the best way I know of to view the Manga in a way similar to how someone would have seen it in the early Nineteenth Century actually involves modern technology. Visipix.com has a large collection of digital images from various Hokusai works, including the complete manga. No worries of replicating inks here. So if, like me, you want this great work in print, aside from investing the money into the original woodblock editions (or later reproductions from recut blocks), looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer for a publisher to try again.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Great, but could have been better
By koinz99
This is a nice book, with great paper and even a nice little obi to go along with it. More could have been used for the size of the book, though. This book includes b & w originals and enlarged red images. The black and white illustrations are in original size, making them sit awkwardly in the middle of the page. This is a fundamental bad design though- often, the images, being in the middle, are put in the gutter. The gutter is the part where the book is binded, so the middle of the images are cut off. It's like putting an important image in a magazine right in the middle, between the two pages- it gets cut off and distorted. Not good. A lot of Hokusai's animals- my favorites like the lion in the snow, were put in the gutter, and thus cut off. It doesn't make sense, though- with the size of this book, many of the images cut off in the gutter could have just been put on one side of a page. They don't have to be put in the middle with so much room...
The best thing about this book is very minimal writing. As one studying to be a tattoo artist in the future, all of the refernce material is nicely uninterrupted by text. However, this will be a book where the reference is hard to find, as this book is unpaginated entirely. Also, images are organized my which of the 15 manga they belong to. With unpaginated pages, they should have just put everything in order by subject. The animals I'll use for reference are all over the place!
This book is over 600 pages, but it's really only about 400 in terms of material. This is why the book mainly gets three stars. I was hoping for over 600 pages in materials- this would amount to atleast 2/3 of the total manga. There was a 623 page version printed in Japan (not talking about the huge 900 page versions), and I was hoping this would be just like it. I was wrong. The red images are really nice, but they're just reproductions of other existing images in the book. They're like previews before the b & w images. This is one of my gripes as soon as I opened the book- pages where only one or two red images were reproduced could have been used for more material. It was kind of a waste. I'd recommend putting the big red reproductions as the main images in the book( since the originals are quite small), and using the remaining space for more Hokusai manga. You're not really getting a 623 page book. I'd recommend the Carlo edition (with the Wave of Kanagawa as the cover), which is 520 pages, and the black and white illustrations are much bigger than original size- that book is huge, but atleast the images are big enough to match it!
A great book that is a wonder to look through and will greatly help my tattoo ideas, but so much potential is wasted. I was really looking towards what seemed like the biggest English language edition of the mangas- without paying over $100 for an imported Japanese version- but looks like I'll be waiting.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Showing the real and the grotesque ...
By Featherwood Kid, Gordon
When I was traveling in Japan, I saw this almost 400 page book and would have purchased it except that there was no room left in the suitcases. As it turned out, it was a good decision since Amazon offers it for almost half the price I would have paid in Japan. It is interesting art with the stress being on people, though there are numerous illustrations of insects, fish, animals, and landscape. Most of the people shown are as being normal, though many are in contorted positions. Some art shows grotesque figures, as for example, legs as long as five foot stilts! The edition offered by Amazon also includes a translation into English to give more depth to the thousands of artistic renderings. The best reproductions in my estimation are those which are in black and white, with flesh tones. There are also a large number of pages that show the drawings in red ink with most being less clear than the black/white art work. I understand that the illustrations here are from the fifteen original books produced in Japan in the 19th century - not every illustration, but surely enough, thousands of them, to educate and intrigue most artists and collectors. To purchase copies of the 15 original books would cost a small fortune. I know - I saw used facsimile copies of some volumes for sale at a museum store in Osaka. The volume offered by Amazon is a well-made paperback - I don't believe a hard cover edition is available - but even as it is the book weighs over four pounds, and measures 8" x 12" x 2" thick! The non-glare paper seems to have been selected especially for these drawings. It is a great value for those interested in Hokusai, or Japanese woodblock art, or for the younger generation, Japanese Manga. GJV
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