Fenollosas Legacy In Late Nineteenth Century Japan

Author : Hiroshi Nara
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666948306
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fenollosa’s Legacy in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan written by Hiroshi Nara and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fenollosa’s Legacy in Late Nineteenth Century Japan: An American Scholar’s Role in Resurrecting the Art of Japan makes a critical assessment of American art theorist Ernest F. Fenollosa’s work in Meiji Japan. Ernest F. Fenollosa was first hired as a Tokyo University professor of political philosophy in 1878 but became an art theorist and policymaker for Japan’s Education Ministry. His illustrious career as an art administrator began with the 1882 Bijutsu shinsetsu speech that cemented the reputation of his work. Working closely with Okakura Kakuzō (Tenshin), Fenollosa became the lightning rod in defining the course of modern painting as well as in establishing the first national art school. He is widely credited with resurrecting moribund traditional Japanese painting to health. The author shows this assessment of Fenollosa as the savior of Japanese traditional painting work may not have been deserved by examining the historical context in which he made the 1882 speech. The book offers the first English translation of Fenollosa’s 1882 Bijutsu shinsetsu speech that had been previously unavailable to the non-Japanese reading audience.

Author : Alex Kerr
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462924182
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Japan written by Alex Kerr and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sharp-tongued spokesman for Japan's environment and traditions" --The New York Times In Alex Kerr's critically acclaimed Lost Japan and Dogs and Demons, he documented the decline of the traditional landscapes of Japan, his adopted home of many years. Here, in Hidden Japan he makes a journey of rediscovery to find the wonders that still remain. Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, Hidden Japan records Kerr's travels to various remote and lesser-known places where pockets of traditional culture can still be found. Some are faraway--like Aogashima Island, 200 miles south of Tokyo--while others are easy to reach, such as Mii-dera temple just east of Kyoto. The ten engaging essays in this book describe surprising remnants of Japan's fragile physical and cultural environment, including: Avant-garde Butoh dancing in the remote village of Tashiro in Akita Prefecture How shochu liquor is distilled from tropical ferns on the Pacific island of Aogashima An austere but delicious kaiseki meal in rural Tottori Prefecture composed of local herbs and meats Anecdotes relating to Kerr's childhood growing up in Japan and his passion for restoring old houses The damage caused by governmental infrastructure and reforestation policies, as well as by tourism Plus many other topics! Kerr's sharp eye for detail and exquisite descriptions of Japanese, arts, architecture and foods will inspire readers who already appreciate his unique look at the "reality" of Japan beyond the romance. His personal involvement and obvious love for his subjects encourage us all to think more carefully about our own traditions and environment, and to challenge ourselves to search for better solutions to preserve what is of value all around us.

Author : Ann Yonemura
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yokohama written by Ann Yonemura and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a special honor for the Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., to assist the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in presenting the museum's first major exhibition of Japanese art, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth Century Japan. Japanese woodblock prints, which have enjoyed appreciation throughout the world, were the first artistic medium to respond to the profound changes affecting Japanese technology, society, and institutions during the years following the opening of Yokohama to international trade in 1859. To the people of Japan more than one hundred years ago, Yokohama prints provided the first views of the customs and achievements of the technologically advanced nations of the United States and Europe. The colorful prints enhanced Japanese understanding of nations as yet unseen except by a few official travelers"--

Author : Margaret Mehl
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312211608
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and the State in Nineteenth-century Japan written by Margaret Mehl and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mehl examines the way in which government interests, indigenous traditions of scholarship, impulses from the West and the rise of the modern nation state combined to shape the modern academic discipline of history in Japan. The focus of her study is on the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo. This research institute was originally a government office established to compile an official national history to legitimize the new imperial government, which replaced shogunal rule in 1868. When the Office moved to the Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1888, its leading members helped establish history as an independent academic discipline. Particular attention is given to the relationship between history for national identity. The history of modern historical scholarship in Japan can be regarded as contemporaneous with the west, rather than in terms of Japan following western example.

Author : William Wright Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691094175
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-century Japan written by William Wright Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests, their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William H. Bridges, IV
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498505481
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production written by William H. Bridges, IV and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders.

Author : Edward R Beauchamp
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Employees In Nineteenth Century Japan written by Edward R Beauchamp and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1990-02-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicolai Cikovsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300065558
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winslow Homer written by Nicolai Cikovsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically.

Author : Brenda G. Jordan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824826086
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets written by Brenda G. Jordan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan.

Author : Woldemar von Seidlitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.EB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Japanese Colour-prints written by Woldemar von Seidlitz and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: