Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan write by Gerald Groemer. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Portraits of Edo and Early Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents a series of five portraits of Edo, the central region of urban space today known as Tokyo, from the great fire of 1657 to the devastating earthquake of 1855. This book endeavors to allow Edo, or at least some of the voices that constituted Edo, to do most of the speaking. These voices become audible in the work of five Japanese eye-witness observers, who notated what they saw, heard, felt, tasted, experienced, and remembered. “An Eastern Stirrup,” presents a vivid portrait of the great conflagration of 1657 that nearly wiped out the city. “Tales of Long Long Ago,” details seventeenth-century warrior-class ways as depicted by a particularly conservative samurai. “The River of Time,” describes the city and its flourishing cultural and economic development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The Spider’s Reel” looks back at both the attainments and calamities of Edo in the 1780s. Finally, “Disaster Days,” offers a meticulous account of Edo life among the ruins of the catastrophic 1855 tremor. Read in sequence, these five pieces offer a unique “insider’s perspective” on the city of Edo and early modern Japan.
Ogata Kōrin
Ogata Kōrin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ogata Kōrin write by Frank Feltens. This book was released on 2021-01-01. Ogata Kōrin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo period Best known for his paintings Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms, Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716) was a highly successful artist who worked in many genres and media--including hanging scrolls, screen paintings, fan paintings, lacquer, textiles, and ceramics. Combining archival research, social history, and visual analysis, Frank Feltens situates Kōrin within the broader art culture of early modern Japan. He shows how financial pressures, client preferences, and the impulse toward personal branding in a competitive field shaped Kōrin's approach to art-making throughout his career. Feltens also offers a keen visual reading of the artist's work, highlighting the ways Kōrin's artistic innovations succeeded across media, such as his introduction of painterly techniques into lacquer design and his creation of ceramics that mimicked the appearance of ink paintings. This book, the first major study of Kōrin in English, provides an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of one of Japan's most significant artists.
Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s
Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s write by Elizabeth Lillehoj. This book was released on 2011-09-09. Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s-1680s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Painting Edo
Painting Edo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Painting Edo write by Rachel Saunders. This book was released on 2020. Painting Edo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14-July 26, 2020.
Mapping Early Modern Japan
Mapping Early Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Early Modern Japan write by Marcia Yonemoto. This book was released on 2003-04-21. Mapping Early Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.
