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This volume examines the visual culture of Japan's transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
List of contents
Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji Hybridity
Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller
- Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space
Michio Hayashi
- Modernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese Calligraphy
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
- Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial Perspective
Michael Lucken
- Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial Japan
Oleg Benesch
- Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enry¿kan
Mary Redfern
- Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji Japan
Alison J. Miller
- Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokush¿'s Strive for Modern Japanese Painting
Katharina Rode
- Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in Japan
Emiko Yamanashi
- Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial Hokkaid¿
Ayelet Zohar
- Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji Japan
Chinghsin Wu
- Exploring Tokyo's Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kaf¿'s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire's Flâneur and Walter Benjamin's Porosity
Evelyn Schulz
About the author
Ayelet Zohar is Senior Lecturer of History of Art at Tel Aviv University.
Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee).
Summary
This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.
