Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s

Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9789004206120
ISBN-13 : 9004206124
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Synopsis Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s by : Elizabeth Lillehoj

Magnificent art and architecture created for the emperor with the financial support of powerful warlords at the beginning of Japan’s early modern era (1580s-1680s) testify to the continued cultural and ideological significance of the imperial family. Works created in this context are discussed in this groundbreaking study, with over 100 illustrations in color.

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780520382497
ISBN-13 : 0520382498
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan by : Christine M. E. Guth

Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan’s diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuman forces. A focus on the material, sociological, physiological, and technical aspects of making practices adds to our understanding of early modern crafts by revealing underlying patterns of thought and action within the wider culture of the times.

The Japanese

The Japanese
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780141992297
ISBN-13 : 0141992298
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Japanese by : Christopher Harding

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Sunday Times From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures.

Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period

Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9789004229013
ISBN-13 : 9004229019
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period by :

In the Edo period, Japan had its first experience of what one might call “intellectual life” in a pregnant sense of the word: a scene that combined serious intellectual pursuits, from poetry writing to the interpretation of the Confucian classics, with intense social interaction. Edo-period Japan was crisscrossed by networks of poets, scholars, artists and collectors who exchanged information, discussed each other’s work, cooperated in collaborative projects, and gossiped about each other. Intellectual life in Edo Japan was a seething cauldron of social interaction and competition, sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.

Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics

Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781349950164
ISBN-13 : 1349950165
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics by : Douglas Howland

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations. The authors transcend disciplinary boundaries and nurture a wide-ranging sensibility about art and sovereignty, two highly complex and interwoven dimensions of human experience that have rarely been explored by scholars in one conceptual space. Several chapters consider the intertwining of modern philosophical currents and modernist artistic forms, in particular those revealing formal abstraction, stylistic experimentation, self-conscious expression, and resistance to traditional definitions of “Art.” Other chapters deal with currents that emerged as facets of art became increasingly commercialized, merging with industrial design and popular entertainment industries. Some contributors address Post-Modernist art and theory, highlighting power relations and providing sceptical, critical commentary on repercussions of colonialism and notions of universal truths rooted in Western ideals. By interfering with established dichotomies and unsettling stable debates related to art and sovereignty, all contributors frame new perspectives on the co-constitution of artworks and practices of sovereignty.

Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods

Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781317286905
ISBN-13 : 1317286901
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods by : Morgan Pitelka

The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that considers Kyoto on its own terms as a historic city with a changing identity. Examining cultural production in the city of Kyoto in two periods of political transition, this book promises to be a major step forward in advancing our knowledge of Kyoto’s history and culture. Its chapters focus on two periods in Kyoto’s history in which the old capital was politically marginalized: the early Edo period, when the center of power shifted from the old imperial capital to the new warriors’ capital of Edo; and the Meiji period, when the imperial court itself was moved to the new modern center of Tokyo. The contributors argue that in both periods the response of Kyoto elites—emperors, courtiers, tea masters, municipal leaders, monks, and merchants—was artistic production and cultural revival. As an artistic, cultural and historical study of Japan's most important historic city, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese history, Asian history, the Edo and Meiji periods, art history, visual culture and cultural history.

Shinto

Shinto
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 721
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ISBN-10 : 9780190621711
ISBN-13 : 0190621710
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Shinto by : Helen Hardacre

Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor.

Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives

Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 668
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ISBN-10 : 9789004315716
ISBN-13 : 9004315713
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives by : Maaike van Berkel

Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.

Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850

Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 423
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ISBN-10 : 9789004393516
ISBN-13 : 900439351X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 by : Ronald P. Toby

In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.

Dynasties

Dynasties
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 437
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ISBN-10 : 9781107060685
ISBN-13 : 1107060680
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Dynasties by : Jeroen Duindam

A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.