Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1977. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 0847801322 / ISBN13: 978-0847801329 Over a century has passed since the West discovered Japanese art. To begin with, it was the beauty of Japanese prints and the exquisite delicacy of Japanese lacquer-ware, ceramics and ivories that caught the attention of the first European connoisseurs. The attitude of the...
Bonanza Books, 1964 — 351 p. — ASIN: B000NP0GG0 From the inside cover of the dust jacket: " Here for the first time is a book that compasses all the arts, crafts, and ceremonies of Japan, giving fundamental information and a clear,, descriptive picture of every category for the interested layman, the expert, and the connoisseur. "
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988. — 260 p. An in-depth examination of the Far Eastern lacquerware known as urushi, this book considers the art historical and scientific viewpoints and presents the priorities for urushi’s preservation and conservation. These are the proceedings of the Urushi Study Group meeting held June 10–27, 1985, in Tokyo, Japan. Luis Monreal, Director, GCI Map...
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. — 227 p. The title of this chapter is ambitious and perhaps misleading. I have no intention of trying to express in a few phrases the essence of the esthetic manifestation of a great people, but rather to call attention to the fact that, in the ultimate winnowing, the essential residuum is to Occidental hands impalpable. We may look...
Parkstone, 2009. — 256 p.:ill. Katsushika Hokusai is without a doubt the most famous Japanese artist known in the Western world since the middle of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai, one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe, greatly influenced Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters,...
New York: W.H. Ketcham, 1896. — 146 p. In arranging a chronological exhibition of works by the Masters of the Ukioye, or Popular School of Japanese Artists, Mr. Ketcham has rendered a service to students and lovers of Japanese Art for which they should be very grateful. That the exhibition has been undertaken partly for commercial reasons does not lessen the obligation. In...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. — 143 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-558-8. This selection of Japanese Art is a promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from Peggy and Roger Gerry. The works were chosen to emphasize the particular character of the collection, the result of a lifetime journey that has been no less than a recapitulation of the appreciation pf Japanese Art...
Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8248-3126-4 "Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art" explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played in this transformation. Although Buddhism is generally regarded as peripheral to modern Japanese society, this...
İstanbul: Türki̇ye İş bankasi kültür yayinlari, 2002. — 522 s. Bozkurt Güvenç’in araştırmaya dayalı Japon Kültürü kitabı, Japon kültürüne bir bütün olarak bakmaya çalışan ilk Türkçe deneme niteliği taşıyor. Bu niteliğiyle bir Japon araştırması sayılan kitapta, daha önce tartışılmış ve yazılmış konulara değinilirken, üzerinde durulan ve yanıtlanmasına çalışılan temel bazı...
4 ed. — Boston: Colonial Press, 1907. — 357 p. Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born in 1867 in Japan to a Japanese woman, Osada, and Carl Herman Oscar Hartmann, a German government and business official. Since his mother died a few months later, the young Hartmann was sent to Hamburg, Germany, with his brother Tanu, to be raised by his paternal grandmother and uncle. He came to the...
Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1979. — 180 p. — ISBN10: 0834810298 / ISBN13: 978-0834810297 Considers the influence of social and historical situations upon the development and growth of Japanese arts and crafts from prehistoric times to the late nineteenth century.
Spring Books, 1967. — 88 p. — ASIN: B0000CLA16. In recent years the art of Japan has received more attention and investigation by Westerners than perhaps any other Eastern art. The reasons are not hard to determine, for even the most ancient of Japanese forms have retained their freshness, inventiveness and colour; there is an immaculate clarity inherent in Japanese art which...
Monograph. Ashgate Publishing 2008 - 143 p. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5857-3 Repertoire and Training Geisha Performances and How They Are Constructed Geisha and Traditional Arts Society Entertainer vs. Artist: Patronage and the Negotiation of Identity Understanding Geisha and GeiL Eroticism Through Ambiguity
Brill, 2011 — 296 p. — ISBN10: 9004206124 / ISBN13: 978-9004206120 During the first century of Japans early modern era (1580s to 1680s), art and architecture created for the imperial court served as markers of social prestige, testifying to the enduring centrality of the palace to the cultural life of Kyoto. Emperors Go-Yzei and Go-Mizunoo relied on financial support from...
2nd Edition. — Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0131176013 / ISBN13: 978-0131176010 Published jointly by Prentice Hall and Pearson, this second edition of the comprehensive history of Japanese art from 10,500 B.C.E. now extends beyond 1945, tying together more closely the development of all the media within a well-articulated historical and social context....
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2020, 45 p., ISBN: 978-0-86463-330-9. This is an accompanying publication to the exhibition " Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan", which had 70 images of hanging scrolls and woodblock prints by such artists as Katsushika Hokusai (1760 – 1849), Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858) and Kitagawa Utamaro (circa 1753 – 1806)....
Tuttle Publishing, 1957. — 342 p. — ISBN10: 0804800421 / ISBN13: 978-0804800426. Arts of Japan is a classic and informative text that explores the rich cultural heritage and history of Japanese Art. This art history text examines the various influences that have shaped the course of Japanese art history in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and handicrafts....
Tokyo, Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1957. This art history text examines the various influences that have shaped the course of Japanese art history in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, and handicrafts. Discussed with challenging insight are the impact of the various Indian and Chinese schools, the pervasive influence of Zen philosophy, and the many other artistic...
Weatherhill, 1998. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0834804239 / ISBN13: 978-0834804234. An introduction to Japanese prints for students and beginning collectors. Both a history and a guide, it covers the art from early Buddhist prints of the mediaeval period up to the present. In addition, it offers a chapter on the collection and care of Japanese prints, a glossary and bibliography.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000. — 466 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-941-9 "The beauty of the Japanese aesthetic first struck me when I saw my mother's kimono, a padded winter garment of black silk with a bold design of twisted pine branches covered with snow... I can remember putting it on and letting it trail behind me. It was then, I believe, that a future collector of...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. — 365 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-136-1 The collection that Mary and Jackson Burke acquired in a period of only about ten years was truly a joint effort, and seldom has there been a couple who worked together so tirelessly and effectively to assemble a large group of important and beautiful works of art. Like all great collectors, they enjoyed...
Yale University Press, 1992 — 522 p. — ISBN10: 9589004237 / ISBN13: 978-0300053333 Once slighted as mere copying from China, the arts of Japan are now seen as a unique alternation of advances and withdrawals. At times the islanders produced Chinese-style works of great beauty, unmatched on the continent. When they chose to be independent, their art differs at every level....
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986. — 139 p. — ISBN10: 0875871283 / ISBN13: 978-0875871288. The Shin’enkan Collection is remarkable tor its scholarly depth and for its vibrant beauty. The collection focuses on paintings of the Edo period (1615- 1868), a time ot rich artistic diversity in Japan. The Edo period takes its name from the city of Edo (modern Tokyo), from which...
Crown Publishers, 1960. — 36 p. Ogata Korin, the great Japanese master of design and one of the originators of the Rimpa style and techniques of painting, lived from 1658-1718. His life thus spans the Genroku period (1688-1704), a brief but culturally definitive era of Japanese history, and his work retains its special flavor. He lived at a time when an urbanity of style in the...
Brill, 2012. — 240 p. Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes considers the career of the Japanese artist Yoshio Markino (1869-1956), a prominent figure on the early twentieth-century London art scene whose popular illustrations of British life adroitly blended stylistic elements of East and West. He established his reputation with watercolors for the avant-garde Studio magazine...
Routledge — 2012 — 296 p. — ISBN10: 041569423X / ISBN13: 978-0415694230 This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history. The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and...
Wachington: National Gallery of Art, 1988. – 416 p. Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture explores the culture created by warriors of medieval and modern Japan. Daimyo were feudal lords who, as leaders of powerful warrior bands, controlled the provinces of Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 to the end of the Edo period in 1868. This warrior class, as newly...
Robert T. Singer with John T. Carpenter, Hollis Goodall, Victor Harris, Matthew McKelway, Herman Ooms, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Henry D. Smith II, Sharon S. Takeda, and Melinda Takeuchi Wachington: National Gallery of Art, 1988. – 480 p. The Edo period is one of the richest in the history of Japanese art, but only in recent decades has it become a focus of art-historical...
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964 — 295 p. — ISBN10: 0385032404 / ISBN13: 978-0385032407 While it is quite different from western art, Japanese art is no less distinctive and a visual description of the development of modern Japanese culture. In this book, the artwork is presented with a great deal of historical context. Each section begins with a combination of a historical and...
Thames & Hudson, 1984. — 216 p.: 167 illus., 20 in color. — ISBN10: 0500201927 / ISBN13: 978-0500201923 The uniqueness of Japanese culture rests on the fact that, throughout its history, Japan has continually taken, adapted and transformed diverse influences, whether from Korea, China, the South Seas, Europe or America, into distinct traditions of its own. This book surveys the...
Global Oriental, 2011. — 549 p. — ISBN10: 9004210032. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.
Tuttle Publishing, 2012. — 232 p. — ASIN: B009YKA0XY. Featuring over 100 unique prints, Modern Japanese Prints is a testament to the continuity of Japanese art and creativity. By far the most vitally creative group of artists working in Japan today, modern print-makers are truly international in appeal. Although they owe much of their heritage to the famous ukiyoe techniques of...
London: G. Bell and sons, 1904. — 350 p. Early Illustrated Books The Beginning of Colour Printing Harunobu, Shunsho, and their Pupils Utamaro, Toyokuni, and Yeishi Hokusai and his pupils Yeisen, Shunsen and his contemporaries The Osaka School and Later Artists Landscape Technique Some Subjects of Illustration List of Artists' Names with Chinese Characters
Greystone Press, New York, 1966 — 238 p. — ASIN: B0000CN4ZX The Art of Japan by P.C. Swann with 63 illustrations in color and 63 black and white illustrations.- The text is divided into nine chapters, beginning with the pre-Buddhist era, during which the wide-spread Jomon culture flourished for a very long time, perhaps from as early as the fifth millennium B.C. almost to the...
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003. — 112 p. Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last great woodblock print master of the Ukiyo-e tradition, and One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is regarded as his greatest achievement. The only complete set of the series, in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, provides for the exquisite reproductions in this popular book...
Tuttle Publishing, 2009. — 480 p. A History of Japanese Art offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyes — a view that is the most revealing of all perspectives. At the same time, it provides readers with a guide to the places in Japan where the best and most representative creations of Japanese art are to be seen.
Hotei Publishing,The Netherlands; 2005 ISBN10: 9074822665 ISBN13: 978-9074822664 -Preface -Acknowledgements -Editorial Note -Chronology -Erotic fantasies of Japan -The Decoruusnes of Yoshiwara -Exeptations of Yoshiwara Visitors -The Catalogue -Glossary -Bibliography -General index. This is the first modern study on Japanese erotic print art (so called shunga), illustrating a...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. — 53 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-368-2. Although far removed in subject matter from the elegant courtesans for which Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) is justly renowned, the "Book of Insects" (Ehon mushi erabi, literally translated as "Picture Book of Selected Insects") is not merely a footnote to the artist's lifework. Rather, it is a pivotal...
Grove Press, 1972 — xiii, 113 p., 92 illustrations — ISBN10: 0394173929 / ISBN13: 978-0394173924 An informal survey of the history and personalities, the culture and the religion of Japan from their beginnings through the middle of the 18th century, revealing the rich variety of arts and crafts that expressed the changing times. Contains 92 half-tone plates.
NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. In 2002, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a rare masterwork of Japanese art — A Long Tale for an Autumn Night, a set of three illustrated handscrolls, each more than ten meters long, dating from the medieval period. This major acquisition gave rise to the exhibition "Storytelling in Japanese Art," organized by Masako Watanabe,...
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