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Japan in the age of modernization : the art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai

Title

Japan in the age of modernization : the art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai / edited by Frank Feltens.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023.
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Description

xi, 228 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Japan entered an age of rapid modernization following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's US navy ships on its shores in the 1850s. It soon became the first nation in Asia whose military and industry were on par with Western imperialist countries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As the Japanese grappled with the massive effects of this rapid Western-inspired modernization, they searched for their cultural identity and increasingly turned to China for inspiration. The distinctively modern identity they built through the arts has only recently begun to be examined by researchers and through exhibitions. This book gathers contributions by scholars from the United States, Japan, and Europe, who look beyond Japan's Western industrialization to examine China's role in forming the nation's modern identity. It accompanies a retrospective of the modern Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) on view in late 2022, at the Freer Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art."--

Series Statement

Smithsonian contribution to knowledge

Uniform Title

Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.

Alternative Title

Art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I); Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) distribution status to be determined upon publication.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Waves of Change / Frank Feltens -- Between Asia and the West: The Struggle for "Japan" in the Era of Modernization, 1860s-1910s / Christopher Harding -- Reinventing Oneself: The Artistic Careers of Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1791-1875 / Paul Berry -- Ōtagaki Rengetsu's Waka Poetics: Sentiment, Selfhood, and the Saigyō Persona / Melissa McCormick -- Four Perfections: Tomioka Tessai and a Sino-Japanese Network, 1895-1924 / Tamaki Maeda -- Tessai and His Space of Seclusion: Ike Taiga, Su Dongpo, Shitao, and the Collecting of Shinwatari Chinese Paintings / Tsukamoto Maromitsu -- Discovering Tessai: Masamune Tokusaburō and Yōga Painters / Michiyo Morioka -- Along the Scholar's Path: A Study of the Mounting Styles of Works by Tomioka Tessai and Ōtagaki Rengetsu in the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection / Akiko Niwa.

ISBN

9781944466619
1944466614
9781944466602 (canceled/invalid)
1944466606 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022052464

OCLC

on1372499110
1372499110
SCSB-14590852

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries