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    Typically, kibyōshi were printed with 10 pages in a volume, with the average number of total pages being 30, thus spanning several volumes. While kibyōshi may...
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    toba-e and kibyōshi picture books, and woodblock prints such as ukiyo-e which were popular between the 17th and 20th centuries. The kibyōshi contained...
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    included further subcategories named after the colors of their jackets. A kibyōshi (yellow) referred to those catering to adult audiences; there were also...
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  • Harumachi (恋川春町)'s kibyōshi entitled Kinkin Sensei Eiga no Yume (『金々先生栄花夢』) marked a new era in the development of kusazōshi. Kibyōshi developed out of...
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    words "a child employed by an adult". In the kibyōshi of the Edo period, just like the popular kibyōshi character tōfu-kozō, they appear as yōkai that...
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    A hitotsume-kozō from the kibyōshi "Bakemono Chakutōchō" by Masayoshi Kitao....
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    districts until the Kansei edicts banned such works, and he turned to comedic kibyōshi. Genres included horror, crime stories, morality stories, comedy, and pornography...
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    The Bakemono Chakutōchō [ja], a kibyōshi by Kitao Masayoshi [fr]. Here appears an umibōzu with scales and a fin....
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    Adam L. 2007 Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook culture and the kibyoshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asian Center. Page 236, figure...
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    Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02266-9. Kern, Adam (2007). "Symposium: Kibyoshi: The World's...
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