Japan and Japonisme

The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-485-6482-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture explores Japan’s engagement with and responses to Japonisme, and presents new perspectives on the history and enduring influence of Japonisme as a cultural discourse. The term “Japonisme” has come to encapsulate the West’s interests in Japanese arts and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Japonisme contributed to Japan’s global reputation as an artistic nation, but it also produced persistent stereotypes about the Japanese, such as the image of “geisha.” This pioneering anthology also demonstrates how Japan has espoused the modern Western fascination with its arts and culture to create and promote its national cultural identity. Japan and Japonisme introduces innovative studies on Japonisme by leading experts in the field, and covers the visual arts, art criticism and exhibitions, fashion, literature, horticulture, and popular culture in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murai, Noriko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - MIYAZAKI Katsumi

Acknowledgments

Notes to Readers

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Japonisme Reconsidered - Yoko TAKAGI and Noriko MURAI

Part I Histories of Japonisme as a Discursive Field

1 The Development of Japonisme Studies: A Retrospective, Viewed Obliquely - INAGA Shigemi

2 Ernest Chesneau, The First Critic of Edgar Degas’s Japonisme - Sophie BASCH

3 On the Marginalization of Japonisme in Western Art History - Greg M. THOMAS

4 The Evolving Perception of Japonisme in Japan, 1900–1940 - MINAMI Asuka

5 Japonisme Through the Eyes of the Japanese: The History of Its Reception in Japan, 1870s–2010s - MABUCHI Akiko

Part II Japan as the Agent of Japonisme

6 Japan’s Other National Museum: The Commodity Exhibition Hall and Japonisme as Industrial Policy - ISHII Motoaki

7 From Japonisme to Japanism (Nihonshugi): Yone Noguchi's Writings and Poems on Ukiyo-e - Sachi NAKACHI

8 Japanese Government Travel Posters in the 1930s: A New Japonisme by the Japanese - KIDA Takuya

Part III Transnational Modalities of Japonisme, Past and Present

9 Morning Glories in Anglophone Japonisme—Gardening, Haiku, and Zen - Yorimitsu HASHIMOTO

10 From Mousmé to Shojo: The Representation of the Cute Japanese Girl in French Media - Kyoko KOMA

11 Celebration or Condemnation? Appropriating Claude Monet’s La Japonaise in Contemporary Japan and the United States - Noriko MURAI

12 Globalizing the Kimono: Analyzing Contemporary Culture through the Lens of Japonisme Studies - Yoko TAKAGI

Afterword - FUJIHARA Sadao

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Murai, Noriko
Noriko MURAI is professor of modern Japanese art history at Sophia University, Tokyo. Her publications in English include Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia (2009), Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900 (2014), and Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2022).