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Art as Object: New Scholarship on the Edo Period - Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market. By Julie Nelson Davis. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. xvii, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780824839383 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. By Morgan Pitelka. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xiii, 221 pp. ISBN: 9780824851576 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan. By Timon Screech. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781780237442 (paper, also available in cloth).

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Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market. By Julie Nelson Davis. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. xvii, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780824839383 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. By Morgan Pitelka. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xiii, 221 pp. ISBN: 9780824851576 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan. By Timon Screech. London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781780237442 (paper, also available in cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2018

Hilary K. Snow
Hilary K. Snow*
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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snowh@uwm.edu
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , November 2018 , pp. 1090 - 1096
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1 Davis, Julie Nelson, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (London: Reaktion Books, 2007)Google Scholar.

2 Davis, Julie Nelson, “Tsutaya Jūzaburō: Master Publisher,” in Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860, eds. Meech, Julia and Oliver, Jane (New York: Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, 2008), 115–42Google Scholar.

3 Davis includes three books and three articles by Screech in her bibliography; Screech's bibliography includes Davis's first book. Pitelka does not cite either scholar, but this is not a weakness, as they both work on later and different material than interests him in this study.

4 Pitelka's discussion of lacquered skulls used by Nobunaga to celebrate a battle victory raises the question of where the line can be drawn between art objects and war trophies (pp. 17–18).