{"product_id":"the-visual-culture-of-meiji-japan-9780367612849","title":"The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines the visual culture of Japanâs transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAyelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween \u003ci\u003eKanji\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHiragana: \u003c\/i\u003eAn Allegorical Reading of the \u003ci\u003eKatakana\u003c\/i\u003e (Non-) Space \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMichio Hayashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese Calligraphy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEugenia Bogdanova-Kummer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMichael Lucken\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMedievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOleg Benesch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMary Redfern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlison J. Miller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNegotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese Painting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKatharina Rode\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmiko Yamanashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFraming Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaidō\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAyelet Zohar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChinghsin Wu\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExploring Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire’s Flâneur and Walter Benjamin’s Porosity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvelyn Schulz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401893126487,"sku":"9780367612849","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-visual-culture-of-meiji-japan-9780367612849","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}