Author: T. H. AssoPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Pictures of Ancient Japanese History
Author: T. H. AssoThe Japan Review
Author: Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London
Author: Japan Society of LondonPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire
Author: Friedrich WencksternPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A bibliography of the Japanese empire
Author: Friedrich von WencksternPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire: From 1859-93 A. D. [VIth year of Ansei
Author: Friedrich WencksternPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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A History of Japan
Author: Kenneth HenshallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230346626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Japan's impact on the modern world has been enormous. It occupies just one 300th of the planet's land area, yet came to wield one sixth of the world's economic power. Just 150 years ago it was an obscure land of paddy fields and feudal despots. Within 50 years it became a major imperial power – it's so-called 'First Miracle'. After defeat in the Second World War, when Japan came close to annihilation, within 25 years it recovered remarkably to become the world's third biggest economy – it's 'Second Miracle'. It is now not only an economic superpower, but also a technological and cultural superpower. True miracles have no explanation: Japan's 'miracles' do. The nation's success lies in deeply ingrained historical values, such as a pragmatic determination to succeed. The world can learn much from Japan, and its story is told in these pages. Covering the full sweep of Japanese history, from ancient to contemporary, this book explores Japan's enormous impact on the modern world, and how vital it is to examine the past and culture of the country in order to full understand its achievements and responses. Now in its third edition, this book is usefully updated and revised.
The New Far East
Author: Arthur DiósyPublisher:
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Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Challenging Past and Present
Author: Ellen P. ConantPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824840593
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during the course of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by a political event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both the preceding Edo (1615–1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868–1912) eras have shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creating an art-historical void that the former view as a period of waning technical and creative inventiveness and the latter as one threatened by Meiji reforms and indiscriminate westernization and modernization. Challenging Past and Present, to the contrary, demonstrates that the period 1840–1890, as seen progressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turn made possible the creative achievements of the twentieth century. The first group of chapters takes as its theme the diverse cultural currents of the transitional period, particularly as they applied to art.The second section deals with the inconsistent yet determinedly pragmatic courses pursed by artists, entrepreneurs, and patrons to achieve a secure footing in the uncertain terrain of early Meiji. Further chapters look at how painters and sculptors sought to absorb and integrate foreign influences and reinterpret their own stylistic mediums.
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