ANDO HIROSHIGE A GUIDE TO JAPANESE PRINTS - BASIL STEWART

Basil Stewart's book, 'A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter', was first published by E. P. Dutton and Company, New York in 1922 with the title 'Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour Prints'. It was reprinted as an unabridged edition by Dover Publications of New York in 1979. It can be ordered online at the Dover Publications Shop.
A version of this book as a series of pdf files, one for each chapter (~2MB each), is available at PrintForum.

A large proportion of the book deals with Hiroshige and selected chapters will be made available here.

	Preface
	PART I - THE COLLECTOR
Chapter I -	Introduction
Chapter II -	How Colour-Prints Were Produced
Chapter III -	On the Formation and Care of a Collection
Chapter IV -	Forgeries, Imitations and Care of a Collection
Chapter V -	Artists of the Ukiyoe School
Chapter VI -	Artists of the Ukiyoe School (continued)
Chapter VII -	Hokusai and Hiroshige
	PART II - SUBJECTS OF ILLUSTRATION (I) LANDSCAPES
Chapter VIII -	Characteristics of Japanese Drawing
Chapter IX -	Classification of Subjects
Chapter X -	The Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido
Chapter XI -	The Fifty-Three Stations on the Tokaido (continued)
Chapter XII -	The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido
Chapter XIII -	The Thirty-Six Views of Fuji
Chapter XIV -	Famous Series of Prints by Hokusai
Chapter XV -	Further Series by Hokusai and Pupils
Chapter XVI -	Miscellaneous Landscape Series (Oblong) by Hiroshige
Chapter XVII -	Various Series of Hak'kei, or "Eight Views," and "Six Tama Rivers"
Chapter XVIII -	"Provinces" Series by Hiroshige and Hiroshige II
Chapter XIX -	"The Hundred Famous Views of Yedo"
	PART III - SUBJECTS OF ILLUSTRATION (II) FIGURE-STUDIES
Chapter XX -	Figure-Studies: Courtesans and Geisha
	PART IV - ACTOR-PORTRAITS AND THEATRICAL SUBJECTS
Chapter XXI -	Origins and Development of the Japanese Theatre and its Plays
Chapter XXII -	Theatrical Prints and their Designers
Chapter XXIII -	The Katsukawa School
Chapter XXIV -	The Utagawa School
Chapter XXV -	Japanese Plays: The Chusingura
Chapter XXVI -	The Drama of the Chushingura (continued)
Chapter XXVII -	The Drama of the Chushingura (continued)
Chapter XXVIII -	Hiroshige's Illustrations to the Chushingura (continued)
Chapter XXIX -	The Chushingura by Artists of the Katsukawa and Utagawa Schools
Chapter XXX -	The Chushingura by Kunisada and Pupils
Chapter XXXI -	Chushingura "Brother Pictures"
Chapter XXXII -	The Sugawara Tragedy
	PART V - HISTORICAL SUBJECTS, LEGENDS AND STORIES
Chapter XXXIII -	Historical Prints by Hiroshige
Chapter XXXIV -	Dramatic and Historical Series (continued)
Chapter XXXV -	Biography and Miscellaneous Subjects
	APPENDICES
I -	The Dating of Japanese Prints: Chronological Table: Numerals
II -	Notes
III -	List of Ukiyoe Artists
IV -	Reproductions of Artists' Signatures, Publishers' Seals and Actors' Crests
V -	Bibliography
	Index

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