Description
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the visual culture of Japanâs transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japanâs transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practi
Table of Contents
Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity
Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller
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Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space
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Michio Hayashi
- Modernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese Calligraphy
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Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
- Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial Perspective
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Michael Lucken
- Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan
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Oleg Benesch
- Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan
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Mary Redfern
- Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan
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Alison J. Miller
- Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese Painting
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Katharina Rode
- Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in Japan
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Emiko Yamanashi
- Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaidō
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Ayelet Zohar
- Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan
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Chinghsin Wu
- Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire’s Flâneur and Walter Benjamin’s Porosity
Evelyn Schulz
