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''The Book of Ahania'' is one of the English poet William Blake's prophetic books. It was published in 1795, illustrated by Blake's own plates. The poem of the book consists of six chapters. The content concerns Fuzon, a son of Urizen, a ''Zoa'' or major aspect in Blake's mythology. Ahania of the title is Urizen's female counterpart. ==Background== During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, Surrey. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing his what were later called his "Lambeth Books", which included ''The Book of Ahania'' in 1795. Like the others under the title, all aspects of the work, including the composition of the designs, the printing of them, the colouring of them, and the selling of them, happened at his home.〔Bentley 2003 pp. 122-124〕 ''The Book of Ahania'' was one of the few works that Blake describes as "illuminated printing", one of his colour printed works with the coloured ink being placed on the copperplate before printed.〔Bentley 2003 pp. 149〕 Both ''The Book of Los'' and ''The Book of Ahania'' were the same size, produced at the same time, and were probably etched on opposing sides of the same copper-plates. Both works were the one ones by Blake to have intaglio etchings instead of relief etchings.〔Bentley 2003 p. 156〕 Likewise, both works were colour-printed, where the various coloured inks were directly applied to the etching instead of added in later.〔Bentley 2003 p. 158〕 Although separate copies of individual plates exist, only one complete version of the ''Ahania'' exists, which is in the collection of the Library of Congress.〔(The William Blake Archive ), retrieved 20 October 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Book of Ahania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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