Japan and Britain after 1859 : creating cultural bridges
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Japan and Britain after 1859 : creating cultural bridges
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-232) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which underpinned them. At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, industrial design, prints, painting and photographs, together with a consideration of Japanese government policy, the Japan-Britain Exhibition of 1910, and commercial spin-offs. In addition, there are case studies of key individuals who were particularly influential in fostering British-Japanese cultural bridges in this period.
Table of Contents
- Part I: The Price of Seclusion - Shirts, Studs and Wash Hand Basins
- The Great Exhibition as a Cultural Bridge
- Affirmative Action, Abroad and in Japan
- Yokohama muki , Japanese Export Ware Part II - In Japan - Maruzen abd the Foreign Book Trade
- Western Architecture and Japanese Architects
- Christopher Dresser, and Industrial Design
- Paintings, Photographs and Prints Part III - In Britain - Japonisme for all
- Collecting Japanese Art
- Three Painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons
- 'The Lovely Flower Land of the Far East', Travel Writing about Japan Part IV - The Commercial Spin Off - Japan British Exhibition, London 1910
- Shopping for Japoniserie Part V - Four Bridge Builders - Painter, Poet, Pearl Maker and Potter - Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach
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