Aesthetic strategies of the floating world: mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū in early modern Japanese popular culture

Contents

Invoking the Spirit of Antiquity -- Ukiyo and the Edo Floating World -- The Floating World in Edo Society -- The Fluvial Dynamics of a Sub-culture -- Print Titles: An Index of Early Modern Japanese Cultural History -- The Structure of Yatsushi -- Furyu, the Ideal of Elegance -- Yatsushi and Furyu in Print Titles -- Encoding Yatsushi in Chinese -- Mitate and Comic Linked Verse -- Nit-picking (ca. 1645) -- The Cypress Pillar (1697) -- Mitate and Illustrated Books -- Santo Kyoden -- Application to Ukiyo-e -- What Were Actor Critiques? -- The Syntax of Mitate -- Japanese Art and Thematic Linking -- Application to Ukiyo-e -- Rounding Out the Definition -- Surveying the Eight Views -- Ukiyo-e for the Genuine Kabuki Fan -- Warriors Matched with Poets -- An Elliptical Mitate Print Title -- Sakuradawa for the Floating World -- Stylishly Viewed as No Chants -- Five Colored Ink Sticks, with Style -- The Floating World's Responses to Classical Culture -- The Legacy of a Meiji Intervention -- Learning from a Popular Art Form.