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Frog in the well : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841

Title
Frog in the well : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 / Donald Keene.
Author
Keene, Donald.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

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Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
Description
289 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Series Statement
Asia perspectives
Subject
  • Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841
  • Painters > Japan > Biography
  • Japan > Intellectual life > 1600-1868
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-276) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year.
Call Number
JFE 06-11944
ISBN
0231138261 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005034247
OCLC
62381344
Author
Keene, Donald.
Title
Frog in the well : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 / Donald Keene.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
Series
Asia perspectives
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-276) and index.
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Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
Research Call Number
JFE 06-11944
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