Preface by Chris Uhlenbeck; Acknowledgements by Chris Uhlenbeck & Margarita Winkel; Editorial Notes; Shunga: the Issues by Chris Uhlenbeck; The Setting for shunga: the Yoshiwara by Cecilia Segawa Seigle; Erotic Books in the Floating World of Urban Life by Margarita Winkel; The Catalogue ('The Primitives'; The Age of Harunobu, Kiyonaga and Utamaro; The Nineteenth Century; The Meiji Period and Beyond); Appendix: Japanese characters for book, print and series titles; Glossary; Bibliography; General Index; Artists' Index.
Christiaan Uhlenbeck has been a Japanese print dealer since 1982
and has curated exhibitions on Ukiyo-e, Shin-hanga and Japanese
photography since the 1990s. His main interest is the commercial
environment of Japanese printmaking, about which he initiated a
conference in 2001. He has recently turned to the investigation of
methodology in the study of Japanese prints.
Margarita Winkel, Ph.D (2004) currently teaches at the Centre for
Japanese Studies, Leiden University, and is publisher of the
academic series of the Research School of Asian, African and
Amerindian Studies (CNWS) at the same institution.
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