Hokusai manga. Nature

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Evgeny Semenovich Steiner is a Japanese scholar, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Doctor of Arts. Worked at the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, taught and did research at the universities of Moscow, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Yokohama, New York, Manchester and London. Since 2012, professor at the School of Oriental Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Author of 15 books published in Russia, USA, UK and Germany. E. Steiner's book "Hokusai's Manga: An Encyclopedia of Old Japanese Life in Pictures" (St. Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2016, 4 vols.) received in 2017 the "Book of the Year" and "Enlightener" awards (in a special nomination). Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is one of the most famous Japanese artists of the Edo period. Throughout his life, he published albums of engraved drawings called "Manga". In fifteen issues with four thousand figures and motifs, Hokusai presented an encyclopedia of old Japan in pictures - from the gods and heroes of antiquity to contemporary amorous deeds, household utensils and various natural species. The book by the Japanese scholar Evgeny Steiner is a complete and detailed commented publication of the Manga, which has no analogues in the world in terms of the completeness of illustrations and historical comments. The author is convinced that a cultural-historical explanation is absolutely necessary in many cases. The Hokusai Manga, although written not in hieroglyphs, but in “picture writing,” needs to be translated from the language of Japanese historical and mythological subjects, as well as alien cultural realities of two hundred years ago. The book will become a desktop guide and will be of interest to all art lovers, enthusiasts of Japanese culture, as well as professional Japanese and Sinologists.

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Publication language: Russian

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