From the Book - Second edition with a new preface.
Part I. The kibyōshi (a study): Introduction: A little yellow comicbook
The floating world in an'ei-tenmei Edo
The blossom of pulp fiction
Manga culture and the visual-verbal imagination
The rise and pratfall of the kibyōshi
Part II. Translations: A note on reading backwards
A note on translating the kibyōshi
Those familiar bestsellers
Playboy, roasted a la Edo
The unseamly silverpiped swingers.