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Book SynopsisRanging in topic from premodern Buddhist, narrative, and ink painting in Japan and East Asia to modern and contemporary Japanese painting, prints, and popular visual images, this title includes essays containing research which draws attention to the works of Japanese art and their historical contexts and modern interpretations.
Table of ContentsForeword and Acknowledgments 7 Preface 11 Contributors 14 Chronology 15 Catching the Last Bus: Yoshiaki Shimizu and the Art of Creative Digression, Mimi hall Yiengpruksawan 19 Bibliography of Yoshiaki Shimizu 29 PART I PICTURING THE TALE OF GENJI Veiled in Shadow: Recent Discoveries and Technical Analyses of the Harvard Art Museum's Tale of Genji Album, Anne Rose Kitagawa 39 A Changing Suma: Varied Illustrations for The Tale of Genji, Bruce A. Coats 55 PART II VISION / PRACTICE The Evidence of Our Eyes: The Epistemology of Vision(s) in Early Medieval Japan, Kevin Gray Carr 77 A Brief Reconsideration of a Fragment of The Illustrated Collected Gleanings of the Legends of Past Virtues, Sinead R. C. Kehoe 95 Mountains, Magic, and Mothers: Envisioning the Female Ascetic in a Medieval Chigo Tale, Melissa McCormick 107 PART III THE BODY Picturing Yusai: The Poet Evoked, Andrew M. Watsky 137 Shiseido Chic: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Japanese Cosmetics, Gennifer Weisenfeld 159 PART IV PICTURING THE WORLD What Is in a Place? New Initiatives in Ink Landscape Painting in Eastern Japan during the Later Muromachi Period, Eva Havlicova 183 The Perfect Gift: Premodern Japanese Screens Sent Abroad, Janice Katz 203 PART V COMBINATORY VISUAL CULTURES Redeeming Qualities: Absolving the Sin of Secular Art and Literature in Early Medieval Japan, Nicole Fabricand-Person 221 Seer of Sounds: The Muqi Triptych, Yukio Lippit 243 Innumerable Embodiments of Hotei: The Emergence of a Literati Persona, Xiaojin Wu 267 PART VI VISION / HISTORY On Return: Kano Eitoku's Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons and the Digital World, Gregory P. A . Levine 285 Selected References 309 Selected Glossary 329 Photo Credits 335
