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Japan on Display

Author : Morris Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134195826
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Japan on Display written by Morris Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography. The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito’s grandfather, the young Meiji Emperor, more visible. Photo books and albums became a popular format for presenting seemingly objective images of the monarch, reminding the Japanese of their proximity to the Emperor, and the imperial family. In the twentieth century, these 'national albums’ provided a visual record of wars fought in the name of the Emperor, while also documenting the reconstruction of Tokyo, scientific expeditions, and imperial tours. Drawing on archival documents, photographs, and sources in both Japanese and English, this book throws new light on the history of twentieth-century Japan and the central role of Hirohito. With Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War, the Emperor was transformed from wartime leader to peace-loving scientist. Japan on Display seeks to understand this reinvention of a more 'human’ Emperor and the role that photography played in the process.

Obtaining Images

Author : Timon Screech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780237442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Obtaining Images written by Timon Screech and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is an introduction to the important artists of the Edo period Japan and their work, as well as the issues and concepts surrounding the production and consumption of art in Japan at that time

Japan on Display

Author : Morris Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134195834
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Japan on Display written by Morris Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years on from the end of the Pacific War, Japan on Display examines representations of the Meiji emperor, Mutsuhito (1852-1912) and his grandson the Showa emperor, Hirohito who was regarded as a symbol of the nation, in both war and peacetime. Much of this representation was aided by the phenomenon of photography. The introduction and development of photography in the nineteenth century coincided with the need to make Hirohito’s grandfather, the young Meiji Emperor, more visible. Photo books and albums became a popular format for presenting seemingly objective images of the monarch, reminding the Japanese of their proximity to the Emperor, and the imperial family. In the twentieth century, these 'national albums’ provided a visual record of wars fought in the name of the Emperor, while also documenting the reconstruction of Tokyo, scientific expeditions, and imperial tours. Drawing on archival documents, photographs, and sources in both Japanese and English, this book throws new light on the history of twentieth-century Japan and the central role of Hirohito. With Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War, the Emperor was transformed from wartime leader to peace-loving scientist. Japan on Display seeks to understand this reinvention of a more 'human’ Emperor and the role that photography played in the process.

Textiles of Japan

Author : Thomas Murray
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791385208
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Textiles of Japan written by Thomas Murray and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rugged Japanese firemen's ceremonial robes and austere rural work-wear to colorful, delicately-patterned cotton kimonos, this lavishly illustrated volume explores Japan's rich tradition of textiles. Textiles are an eloquent form of cultural expression and of great importance in the daily life of a people, as well as in their rituals and ceremonies. The traditional clothing and fabrics featured in this book were made and used in the islands of the Japanese archipelago between the late 18th and the mid 20th century. The Thomas Murray collection featured in this book includes daily dress, work-wear, and festival garb and follows the Arts and Crafts philosophy of the Mingei Movement, which saw that modernization would leave behind traditional art forms such as the hand-made textiles used by country people, farmers, and fisherman. It presents subtly patterned cotton fabrics, often indigo dyed from the main islands of Honshu and Kyushu, along with garments of the more remote islands: the graphic bark cloth, nettle fiber, and fish skin robes of the aboriginal Ainu in Hokkaido and Sakhalin to the north, and the brilliantly colored cotton kimonos of Okinawa to the far south. Numerous examples of these fabrics, photographed in exquisite detail, offer insight into Japan's complex textile history as well as inspiration for today's designers and artists. This volume explores the range and artistry of the country's tradition of fiber arts and is an essential resource for anyone captivated by the Japanese aesthetic.

Bodies of Memory

Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400842980
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Memory written by Yoshikuni Igarashi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.

Citizen 13660

Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295959894
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Citizen 13660 written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine Okubo was one of 110,000 people of Japanese descent--nearly two-thirds of them American citizens -- who were rounded up into "protective custody" shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, her memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, was first published in 1946, then reissued by University of Washington Press in 1983 with a new Preface by the author. With 197 pen-and-ink illustrations, and poignantly written text, the book has been a perennial bestseller, and is used in college and university courses across the country. "[Mine Okubo] took her months of life in the concentration camp and made it the material for this amusing, heart-breaking book. . . . The moral is never expressed, but the wry pictures and the scanty words make the reader laugh -- and if he is an American too -- blush." -- Pearl Buck Read more about Mine Okubo in the 2008 UW Press book, Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBMIN.html

Japan's Modern Divide

Author : Hiroshi Hamaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606061321
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Modern Divide written by Hiroshi Hamaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s the history of Japanese photography evolved in two very different directions: one toward documentary photography, the other favoring an experimental, or avant-garde, approach strongly influenced by Western Surrealism. This book explores these two strains of modern Japanese photography through the work of two remarkable figures: Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999) was born and raised in Tokyo and, after an initial period of creative experimentation, turned his attention to recording traditional life and culture on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1940 he began photographing the New Year's rituals in a remote village, which was published as Yukiguni (Snow country). He went on to record cultural changes in China, political protests in Japan, and landscapes around the world. Kansuke Yamamoto (1914-1987) became fascinated by the innovative approaches in art and literature exemplified by such Western artists as Man Ray, Ren Magritte, and Yves Tanguy. He promoted Surrealist and avant-garde ideas in Japan through his poetry, paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Along with essays by the book's coeditors, Judith Keller and Amanda Maddox, are essays by Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko, and Jonathan M. Reynolds, life chronologies, and a selection of poems by Yamamoto translated by John Solt. This book, which features more than one hundred images, accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 26 to August 25, 2013.

Painting Edo

Author : Rachel Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300250893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Painting Edo written by Rachel Saunders and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14-July 26, 2020.

The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan

Author : Alice Yu-Ting Tseng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan written by Alice Yu-Ting Tseng and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English-language study of the art, history, and architecture of Japan's Imperial Museums, the predecessors of today's national museums in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara. It provides a chronological analysis of the museums' development, and highlights cross-cultural influences that enriched and complicated Japan's search for a durable modern identity. Alice Y. Tseng is assistant professor of art history at Boston University.

Tokyo, 1955-1970

Author : Doryun Chong
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 0870708341
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo, 1955-1970 written by Doryun Chong and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2012-Feb. 25, 2013.

Making Time

Author : Yulia Frumer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651644X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Making Time written by Yulia Frumer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variable hours in a changing society -- Towers, pillows, and graphs: variation in clock design -- Astronomical time measurement and changing conceptions of time -- Geodesy, cartography, and time measurement -- Navigation and global time -- Time measurement on the ground in Kaga domain -- Clock-makers at the crossroads -- Western time and the rhetoric of enlightenment

A Year in Japan

Author : Kate T. Williamson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985404
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book A Year in Japan written by Kate T. Williamson and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City-based writer and illustrator Williamson shares discoveries about Japan and its culture based on a recent year spent in Kyoto as a postgraduate student. The text combines the author's colorful illustrations with brief descriptions presented in a script-style text. The end result is a charming, journal-like publication in which Williams

The Floral Art of Japan

Author : Josiah Conder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Floral Art of Japan written by Josiah Conder and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Additional outline plates and figures in the text have been introduced as well as new coloured prints from designs expressly made by Ogata Gekko, one of the best living artists of the Popular school" -- Preface Josiah Conder Tokio May, 1899.

Tokyo

Author : Lena Fritsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910807392
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Tokyo written by Lena Fritsch and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the iconic woodblock prints of Hiroshige; Tokyo Pop Art posters; the photography of Moriyama Daido and Ninagawa Mika; manga; film; and contemporary art by Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto. Visually bold and richly detailed, this publication looks at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal and it tells the stories of the people who have made Tokyo so famous with their insatiable appetite for the new and innovative - from the samurai to avantgarde artists today. Co-edited by Japanese art specialists and curators Lena Fritsch and Clare Pollard from Oxford University, this accessible volume features 28 texts by international experts of Japanese culture, as well as original statements by influential artists.

Seeing Japan

Author : Charles T. Whipple
Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 4770023375
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Japan written by Charles T. Whipple and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scenes and images that best typify Japan are showcased in this lavishroduction - full colour photographs throughout, with a succinct andlluminating text. Part 1 presents the tremendous range of landscapes andustoms in the various distinctive regions of this suprisingly large andiverse nation, while Part 2 concentrates on the arts and traditions of aulture that has been nurtured over centuries. Part 3 offers essentialackground on the country's history, language and people.

The Art of the Japanese Screen

Author : Elise Grilli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Japanese Screen written by Elise Grilli and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unfolding Beauty

Author : Cleveland Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Unfolding Beauty written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days the Cleveland Museum of Art has demonstrated an active interest in Asian art. An important aspect of this initiative is the interest in the indigenous art of Japan evident in the museum's collection of screens, in which narrative subjects receive emphasis equal to those of the earlier Chinese-dominated tradition. Forty-four Japanese screens (many of them pairs), from the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, represent one of the largest and best collections in the West. This exhibition catalogue illustrates all these extraordinary objects together for the first time, in a generous format and the highest quality reproduction.