Ellis Tinios is a book historian at the

University of Leeds The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

. Tinios is a specialist in the evolution of the

illustrated book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The ima ...

in Japan from 1615 to 1912, and the representation of China in

Japanese books Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

and prints of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Selected publications

* Understanding Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated books: a short introduction to their history, bibliography and format, co-authored with Suzuki Jun (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo). Leiden: Brill, 2013. * ‘Japanese illustrated erotic books in the context of commercial publishing, 1660-1868’ in Japan Review No. 26 (2013) Special Issue: Shunga: Sex and humour in Japanese art and Literature. Edited by Andrew Gerstle. pp. 83–96. * Contributor to the exhibition catalogue Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese Art. Edited by Timothy Clark et al. British Museum Press, 2013. * Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700–1900. British Museum Press, 2010. * ‘Pushing the Boundaries: Kuniyoshi and China’ in Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America, Inc., Number 31 (2010) * ‘Art, anatomy and eroticism: The Human Body in Japanese Illustrated Books of the Edo Period, 1615-1868’. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. Number 31 (2010), pp. 44–63. * ‘’ 円山四条派画譜の目的 ("The Purpose of Maruyama-Shijô School ") in 江戸の絵本：画像とテキストの綾なせる世界 (Ehon in the Edo Period: a splendid world of interwoven image and text) (2010). * ‘Once, twice, thrice-wrong’ eview article on the third edition of Christopher Hitchens. The Parthenon Marbles: the Case for Reunificationin Art Watch UK Newsletter No.25 (Autumn 2009) * ‘Warrior Prints: a Double-edged Sword’, essay in Competition and Collaboration: The Utagawa School and Japan's Print Culture edited by Laura Mueller. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 2007. * ‘The Fragrance of Female Immortals: Celebrity Endorsement from the Afterlife’ in Impressions: The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. Number 27 (2005-2006), pp. 43–53.

References

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