Description
Japanese Art: Critical and Primary Sources is a four-volume reference work offering a critical overview of the history and culture of Japanese art. Drawing upon a wide range of English-language texts, the volumes explore the diverse and changing material and visual cultures of Japan from the pre-modern period to the present day.
Over 75 essays from Asia, North America and Europe are assembled in this set and they address four major themes - material cultures (Buddhist objects, ceramics, textiles, interiors), visual cultures (painting, calligraphy, photography), printed matter (wood-block prints, books) and the context for Japan's art history (networks of patronage, sites of artistic production and consumption). Each volume is separately introduced and the selected materials are presented thematically, and chronologically within categories.
Together the four volumes of Japanese Art present a major scholarly resource for the field.
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1: Material Cultures
General Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Buddhist Things
1. The Buddha Triad Senbutsu unearthed in Japan: Replicating and Reinventing the Chinese Prototype in the Seventh Century, Yoko Hsueh Shirai
2. Shifting Identities in Buddhist Sculpture: Who's Who in the Muroji Kondo, Sherry Fowler
3. Containers of Sacred Text and Image at Twelfth-Century Choanji in Kyushu, Sherry Fowler
4. Wooden Statues as Living Bodies: Deciphering the Meanings of the Deposits within Two Manjushri Images of the Saidaiji Order, Pei-Jung Wu
5. Tokens of Faith: Japanese Altar Cloths of the Edo Period, Helen Loveday
Part II: Ceramics
6. Debating Jomon Social Complexity, Richard Pearson
7. The Dogu Phenomenon, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
8. Tea Taste: Patronage and Collaboration Among Tea Masters and Potters in Early Modern Japan,
Morgan Pitelka
9. Modern Japanese Ceramics into Mingei: Art, Industry and Idea, Richard L. Wilson
Part III: Textiles, Lacquer and Swords
10. Weaving Kimono Back into the Fabric of Japanese Art History, John Carpenter
11. Marketing the Marvellous: The Promotion of Textiles and Ceramics in the Later Meiji Era, Joe Earle
12. The Ethereal World of Uzawa Shogetsu, Jan Dees
13. The Japanese Sword: The Soul of the Samurai, Gregory Irvine
14. Introducing the Japanese Sword, Colin M. Roach
Part IV: Buildings and Homes
15. The Mystery of the Meiji Model of the Shogun's Mausoleum, William Coaldrake
16. Was Meiji Taste in Interiors 'Orientalist'? Jordan Sand
17. Export Carved Furniture: from Official Pieces to the 'Meiji Baroque', Yumiko Yamamori
18. Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist 'Ancestor Worship' with Home Decor and Consumer Choice, John Nelson
VOLUME 2: Visual Cultures
General Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Painters and Subjects
1. The Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan, Melissa McCormick
2. 'Pictures (the Most Part Bawdy)': The Anglo-Japanese Painting Trade in the Early 1600s, Timon Screech
3. Ito Jakuchu: A Man Rejoicing in Painting, Tadashi Kobayashi
4. Views of Lake Biwa, Matthew McKelway
5. From Feudal Hero to National Icon: The Kusunoki Masashige Image, 1660-1945, Tamaki Maeda
Part II: Painting Practices
6. Of Modes and Manners in Japanese Ink Painting: Sesshu's Splashed Ink Landscape of 1495, Yukio Lippit
7. Issues of Talent and Training in the Seventeenth-Century Kano Workshop, Karen Gerhart
8. Copying and Theory in Edo Period Japan (1615-1868), Kazuko Kameda-Madar
9. Nihonga Meets Gu Kaizhi: A Japanese Copy of a Chinese Painting in the British Museum, Shane McCausland
Part III: The Courtly Tradition
10. Genji Goes West: The 1510 Genji Album and the Visualization of Court and Capital, Melissa McCormick
11. Konoe Nobutada's Waka Byobu: Kana Calligraphy and the Triumph of a Displaced Courtier, Sadako Ohki
12. Some Western Thoughts on Shodo: The Way of Writing, Sylvan Barnet and William Burton
Part IV: Buddhist Images
13. Portrait of Prince Shotoku and Two Princes: From Devotional Painting to Imperial Object, Chari Pradel
14. Cracking Cauldrons and Babies on Blossoms: The Relocation of Salvation in Japanese Hell Painting, Caroline Hirasawa
15. Behind the Sensationalism: Images of a Decaying Corpse in Japanese Buddhist Art, Fusae Kanda
16. Master of Mercy: Kano Kazunobu and the Buddhas Amazing Disciples, James T. Ulak
17. Votive Paintings of the Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, Hilary K. Snow
18. The Visual Culture of Japanese Buddhism from the Early Modern Period to the Present, Patricia J. Graham
19. Meaning and Multiplicity: The Daruma Images of Nantenbo, Paul Berry
Part V: Modern Images
20. Studio Practices in Early Japanese Photography, Karen Fraser
21. Selling Portrait Photographs: Early Photographic Business in Asakusa, Japan, Maki Fukuoka
22. Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kanto Earthquake, Gennifer Weisenfeld
23. Embodiment/Disembodiment in Japanese Painting During the Fifteen-Year War, Bert Winther-Tamaki
VOLUME 3: Printed Matter
General Introduction
Introduction
Part I: The Floating World
1. Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Ann Yonemura
2. Hokusai's Great Waves in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Visual Culture, Christine M. E. Guth
3. The Ephemerality of Gender: Nanshoku and Wakashu in Japanese Erotic Art, Stephen Salel
Part II: Printed Drama
4. Creating Celebrity: Poetry in Osaka Actor Surimono and Prints, Andrew C. Gerstle
5. Kabuki Plays on Page-and Comicbook Pictures on Stage-in Edo-Period Japan, Adam L. Kern
6. Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Jonathon Zwicker
Part III: Writers and Readers
7. Unsuitable Books for Women? "Genji Monogatari" and "Ise Monogatari" in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan, Peter F. Kornicki
8. Manuscript, Not Print: Scribal Culture in the Edo Period, Peter F. Kornicki
9. The Catfish Underground: Japan's Earthquake Folklore and Popular Responses to Disaster, Hidemi Shiga
Part IV: Modern Prints
10. Gyre and Gimble: The Artist Books of Takei Takeo (1894-1983), Rachel Saunders
11. Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image- Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule,
Paul Barclay
12. The Incident at Nishibeta Village: A Classic Manga by Tsuge Yoshiharu from the Garo Years, Tom Gill
13. The Allure of Innocence: Depictions of Women in Modern Japanese Erotic Art, Stephen Salel
VOLUME 4: Sites and Patrons, Knowledge and Power
General Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Tradition
1. Reconsidering Zen, Samurai, and the Martial Arts, Oleg Benesch
2. The Multiple Modalities of the Copy in Traditional Japanese Crafts, Christine M. E. Guth
3. The Retirement of Kyoto as Imperial Capital, Alice Y. Tseng
4. New Art and the Display of Antiquities in Mid-Meiji Tokyo, Chelsea Foxwell
5. Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World, Gennifer Weisenfeld
Part II: Exhibitions
6. Japan as Museum? Encapsulating Change and Loss in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japan, Chelsea Foxwell
7. "The Sole Guardians of the Art Inheritance of Asia": Japan and China at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, Carol Ann Christ
8. Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival, Noriko Aso
9. Monumentalizing the Everyday: The Edo-Tokyo Museum, Jordan Sand
10. "The Kimono Wednesday" Protests: Identity Politics and How the Kimono Became More Than Japanese, Julie Valk
Part III: Collectors and Patrons
11. To-fukumon'in: Empress, Patron, and Artist, Elizabeth Lillehoj
12. The Empire of Things: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Material Legacy and Cultural Profile, Morgan Pitelka
13. Preserving Intangible Heritage in Japan, Voltaire Garces Cang
14. Objects of Desire: Japanese Collectors and Colonial Korea, Kim Brandt
15. Charles Longfellow and Okakura Kakuzo, Christine M. E. Guth
16. Modern Art Patronage and Democratic Citizenship in Japan, Laura Hein
Part IV: Transnational Art
17. The Presentation and Reception of Japanese Art in Europe during the Meiji period, Hiroko Yokomizo
18. Artifacts or Art? Envisioning East Asian Culture in Imperial Germany, Doris Croissant
19. Okakura's Way of Tea: Representing Chanoyu in Early Twentieth-Century America, Noriko Murai
20. Homo Orientalis: Bernard Leach and the Image of the Japanese Craftsman, Edmund De Waal
Part V: Power and Creativity
21. Copying in Japanese Art: Calligraphy, Painting, and Architecture, Yoshiaki Shimizu
22. New Art Collectives in the Service of the War: The Formation of Art Organizations during the Asia-Pacific War, Maki Kaneko
23. 'Create what has never been done before!' Historicising Gutai Discourses of Originality, Ming Tiampo
24. Ikeda Manabu, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and Disaster/ Nuclear Art in Japan, Asato Ikdeda
Appendix of Sources
Index
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