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Crossing the sea : essays on East Asian art in honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu

edited by Gregory P.A. Levine, Andrew M. Watsky, and Gennifer Weisenfeld

P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, c2012

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Chronology: p. 15

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Yoshiaki Shimizu, one of the foremost scholars of Japanese art history, taught at Princeton University for more than twenty-five years, during which time he trained many students who have become respected professors and museum professionals. Crossing the Sea gathers original essays by thirteen of these students, in honor of Shimizu's extraordinary career at Princeton as well as his teaching at other institutions and his work as curator of Japanese art at the Freer-Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. Ranging 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, these essays present innovative research that draws attention to remarkable works of Japanese art and their fascinating historical contexts and modern interpretations. Including reinterpretations of well-known works and richly developed accounts of their meaning and function in historical, religious, and cultural contexts, this volume also provides a state-of-the-field portrait of Japanese art studies today.

Table of Contents

Foreword 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

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  • NCID
    BB12460596
  • ISBN
    • 9780691156538
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Princeton, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    335 p.
  • Size
    31 cm
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