Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo Period : origins, routes and destinations for travelers

dc.contributor.advisorChairperson, Graduate Committee: Todd Larkinen
dc.contributor.authorHiggins, Chelsea Leighen
dc.coverage.spatialJapanen
dc.coverage.temporalSeventeenth centuryen
dc.coverage.temporalEighteenth centuryen
dc.coverage.temporalNineteenth centuryen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-03T16:34:57Z
dc.date.available2016-01-03T16:34:57Z
dc.date.issued2015en
dc.description.abstractDuring the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan the color woodblock print became a popular, localized art form among the merchant class of the nation's administrative center Edo (Tokyo). Ukiyo-e subject matter rose to prominence with its interest in depictions of contemporary entertainment, such as beautiful women, the pleasure district, and kabuki actors, and eventually grew to encompass poetic depictions of the nation's landscape. Representations of the popular Gokaidō highways (connecting the imperial capital Kyoto to the new governmental center Edo) in print imagery have thus far been identified in scholarship under the landscape genre. It is my goal to present a new way of looking specifically at these landscape prints that are not only "landscape prints", but can be further analyzed as "travel prints". By taking a closer look at 15 ukiyo-e prints from the Edo period, I have divided the genre of "landscape prints" into three categories of travel prints: Origins, Routes, and Destinations. The goal of this catalog is to bring awareness to the notion that these travel prints highlight valuable aspects of travel culture. I have found that these three categories present unique iconographical relationships among figures, architecture, and the landscape. These relationships can be described as Origins, Routes, and Destinations. In this catalog I have described each print in terms of how it uses the graphic composition as a means for understanding the travel culture through different social spaces of travelers in Japan during the Edo period.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/9051en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMontana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architectureen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2015 by Chelsea Leigh Higginsen
dc.subject.lcshUkiyoeen
dc.subject.lcshVoyages and travelsen
dc.subject.lcshHistoryen
dc.titleJapanese woodblock prints of the Edo Period : origins, routes and destinations for travelersen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.catalog.ckey2756449en
thesis.degree.committeemembersMembers, Graduate Committee: Regina Gee; Melissa Ragainen
thesis.degree.departmentArt.en
thesis.degree.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.nameMAen
thesis.format.extentfirstpage1en
thesis.format.extentlastpage56en

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