Author: Kaikoku Hyakunen Kinen Bunka JigyōkaiPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages :
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Japanese Culture in the Meiji Era: Arts and crafts
Author: Kaikoku Hyakunen Kinen Bunka JigyōkaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Japanese Culture in the Meiji Era
Author: 直昭·上野Japanese Arts and Crafts in the Meiji Era
Author: Naoteru UenoJapanese Culture in the Meiji Era
Author: Kaikoku Hyakunen Kinen Bunka Jigyōkai (Japan)Publisher:
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Category : Civilization, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Japanese Arts and Crafts in the Meiji Era ...
Author: Naoteru UyenoJapanese Culture in the Meiji Era. Volume 7, Arts and Crafts
Author: Uyeno NaoteruJapanese Culture in the Meiji Era: Thought
Author: Japanese Arts & Crafts in the Meiji Era
Author: Naoteru UenoPublisher: Tokyo, Pan-Pacific
ISBN:
Category : ART-JAPAN HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Since Meiji
Author: J. Thomas RimerPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861027
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Research outside Japan on the history and significance of the Japanese visual arts since the beginning of the Meiji period (1868) has been, with the exception of writings on modern and contemporary woodblock prints, a relatively unexplored area of inquiry. In recent years, however, the subject has begun to attract wide interest. As is evident from this volume, this period of roughly a century and a half produced an outpouring of art created in a bewildering number of genres and spanning a wide range of aims and accomplishments. Since Meiji is the first sustained effort in English to discuss in any depth a time when Japan, eager to join in the larger cultural developments in Europe and the U.S., went through a visual revolution. Indeed, this study of the visual arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries suggests a fresh history of modern Japanese culture—one that until now has not been widely visible or thoroughly analyzed outside that country. In this extensive collection, which includes some 190 black-and-white and color reproductions, scholars from Japan, Europe, Australia, and America explore an impressive array of subjects: painting, sculpture, prints, fashion design, crafts, and gardens. The works discussed range from early Meiji attempts to create art that referenced Western styles to postwar and contemporary avant-garde experiments. There are, in addition, substantive investigations of the cultural and intellectual background that helped stimulate the creation of new and shifting art forms, including essays on the invention of a modern artistic vocabulary in the Japanese language and the history of art criticism in Japan, as well as an extensive account of the career and significance of perhaps the best-known Japanese figure concerned with the visual arts of his period, Okakura Tenshin (1862–1913), whose Book of Tea is still widely read today. Taken together, the essays in this volume allow readers to connect ideas and images, thus bringing to light larger trends in the Japanese visual arts that have made possible the vitality, range, and striking achievements created during this turbulent and lively period. Contributors: Stephen Addiss, Chiaki Ajioka, John Clark, Ellen Conant, Mikiko Hirayama, Michael Marra, Jonathan Reynolds, J. Thomas Rimer, Audrey Yoshiko Seo, Eric C. Shiner, Lawrence Smith, Shuji Tanaka, Reiko Tomii, Mayu Tsuruya, Toshio Watanabe, Gennifer Weisenfeld, Bert Winther-Tamaki, Emiko Yamanashi.
Vanishing Japan
Author: Elizabeth KiritaniPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462904270
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This classic text of Japanese culture contains a wealth of information about traditional Japan and Japanese customs. Pawnshops and handmade paper, shoe shiners and Shinto jugglers, money rakes and mosquito netting--all these were once a familiar part of daily life in Japan. Many elements of that daily life, like the Obon dances and oreiboko apprenticeships, have no counterpart in any other culture: they are purely unique to Japan. But with the tremendous changes of the modern age, most traces of traditional life in Japan are fast disappearing, soon to be gone forever. Still, there are a few holdouts, especially in Japan's shitamachi, or working-class neighborhoods, where many of the survivors of Japanese crafts, art forms, and festivals are making their last stand. Vanishing Japan is a must-read for tourists, historians, architects, or artists who are interested in Japanese culture.