Sharaku: The Enigmatic Ukiyo-E Master Animation Graphic Design and The Disappearance of the

and The Disappearance of the Soul

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press / The British Library

The Meiji Restoration—as history calls it—toppled the shogunate

Tolstoy blends fiction with historical analysis

Provides descriptions and price listings for a wide variety of furniture ranging from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century

Sharaku: The Enigmatic Ukiyo-E Master Animation Graphic Design and The Disappearance of theRembrandt, Velazquez, and Toshusai Sharaku have been called the greatest portrait artists of all time. Of the three, Sharaku's name is undoubtedly the least widely known. This comparative obscurity may be due to the fact that Sharaku was ignored in his own country and time, Japan of the eighteenth century, and remained in obscurity until his powerful portraits of Kabuki actors were discovered over one hundred years later by Western artists and