The Akita Ranga School and The Cultural Context in Edo Japan

• Main Author: Imahashi, Riko 1964- (Author)
• Other Authors: McCreery, Ruth S (Translator)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo International House of Japan 2016; Tokyo 2016; ©2016
• Edition: English : First English edition
• Series: LTCB international library selection, no. 34.
• Subjects: Odano, Naotake, Shinobazu Pond > 1750-1780; Akita Ranga School; Painting, Japanese > European influences; Akita-ken > Japan; Painting, Japanese > Edo period; Kokusai-Nihongo-Fukyū-Kyōkai
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"Since the late nineteenth-century emergence of japonisme in the Western art world, the work of ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro has come to be widely appreciated in the West. Recognition of other genres of Edo-period painting has, however, lagged behind. In this volume,...

Table of Contents:

• Reading Shinobazu Pond
• Before the Discovery of Shinobazu Pond. Akita Ranga in Japanese Art/Rethinking The Dawn of Western-Style Painting in Japan
• Topos and Image/Shinobazu Pond. Shinobazu Pond as a Topos ; The Beauty by the Edge of the Pond
• Visual Framing Devices/The Circular Window. Within the Circular Window ; The Framing Window and Borrowed Scenery: The Literati Window ; An Unrecognized Avant-Gardism