Japanese Art Signatures

A comprehensive guide to reading Japanese art signatures, this text is designed for both the layman and the scholar, with a simplified approach that allows users to find and identify over 11,000 names of Japanese artists and craftspeople, from all periods and in all media. The book includes a section on reading dates, a list over over 300 modified and debased characters and an index of provinces and place names, plus reproductions of date and censor seals on woodblock prints, publishers' trademarks and seals, and actors' and Genji "mon".