Description
Book SynopsisConsiders how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture. This book also features works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Trade Review"Featuring a splendid variety of exquisite Japanese works of art from the Kobe City Museum, Japan Envisions the West provides a rare and intriguing window into interactions between Japan and the West."
* Nichi Bei Times *
"This is a brilliant study of Western influences on the arts and culture of Japan during the Edo period, going far beyond the standard analyses of formal elements such as perspective and three dimensions. . . . This is a crucial purchase for college and university libraries, since it will change considerably readers' understanding of this important period of East/West relations. Essential."
* Choice *
"Features a splendid variety of exquisite Japanese works of art from the Kobe City museum, proving a rare insight into interactions between Japan and the West for three centuries."
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Table of ContentsForeword / Mimi Gardner Gates
Curator's Statement / Yukiko Shirahara
Introduction: The Painters of Japan and the West / Oka Yasumasa
The Reception of Maps between Japan and the West / Onoda Kazuyuki
Two Streams of Namban Painting / Narusawa Katsushi
The Art Scene in and around Nagasaki / Narusawa Katsushi
The Influence of Ransho on Western-style Painting / Katsumori Noriko
The Early Copperplate Prints of Shiba Kokan and Aodo Denzen / Tsukahara Akira
Hollandisme in Japanese Craftwork / Oka Yasumasa
Japan and the West: Export Porcelain and Lacquerware / Christiaane J. A. Jorg
The Opening of Japan and Its Visual Culture / Tsukahara Akira
Further Reading
Acknowledgments / Yukiko Shirahara
Index
Notes to the Reader
