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The Curious Case Of The Camel In Modern Japan

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Author : Ayelet Zohar
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2022-05

The Curious Case Of The Camel In Modern Japan written by Ayelet Zohar and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05 with Art categories.

In 'The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan' Ayelet Zohar critically analyzes camel images as a metonymy for Asia, and Japanese attitudes towards the continent. The book reads into encounters with the exotic animals, from 'nanban' art, realist Dutch-influenced illustrations, through 'misemono' roadshows of the first camel-pair imported in 1821. Modernity and Japan?s wars of Pan-Asiatic fantasies associated camels with Asia?s poverty, bringing camels into zoos, tourist venues, and military zones, as lowly beasts of burden, while postwar images project the 'imago' of exotica and foreignness on camels as Buddhist ?peace? messengers. Zohar convincingly argues that in the Japanese imagination, camels serve as signifiers of Asia as Otherness, the opposite of Japan?s desire for self-association with Western cultures.

The Curious Case Of The Camel In Modern Japan

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Author : Ayelet Zohar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-08-22

The Curious Case Of The Camel In Modern Japan written by Ayelet Zohar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Art categories.

In The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan Ayelet Zohar critically analyzes camel images as a metonymy for Asia, and Japanese attitudes towards the continent. The book reads into encounters with the exotic animals, from nanban art, realist Dutch-influenced illustrations, through misemono roadshows of the first camel-pair imported in 1821. Modernity and Japan’s wars of Pan-Asiatic fantasies associated camels with Asia’s poverty, bringing camels into zoos, tourist venues, and military zones, as lowly beasts of burden, while postwar images project the imago of exotica and foreignness on camels as Buddhist ‘peace’ messengers. Zohar convincingly argues that in the Japanese imagination, camels serve as signifiers of Asia as Otherness, the opposite of Japan’s desire for self-association with Western cultures.

The Visual Culture Of Meiji Japan

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Author : Ayelet Zohar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29

The Visual Culture Of Meiji Japan written by Ayelet Zohar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Art categories.

This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through this important moment in Japanese history, contributors reflect on Japan’s transcultural artistic imagination vis-a-vis the discernment, negotiation, assimilation, and assemblage of diverse aesthetic concepts and visual pursuits. The collected chapters show how new cultural notions were partially modified and integrated to become the artistic methods of modern Japan, based on the hybridization of major ideologies, visualities, technologies, productions, formulations, and modes of representation. The book presents case studies of creative transformation demonstrating how new concepts and methods were perceived and altered to match views and theories prevalent in Meiji Japan, and by what means different practitioners negotiated between their existing skills and the knowledge generated from incoming ideas to create innovative modes of practice and representation that reflected the specificity of modern Japanese artistic circumstances. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Japanese studies, Asian studies, and Japanese history, as well as those who use approaches and methods related to globalization, cross-cultural studies, transcultural exchange, and interdisciplinary studies.

The Same Moon Shines On All

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Author : Yanagawa Seigan
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-23

The Same Moon Shines On All written by Yanagawa Seigan and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-23 with Poetry categories.

Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teaching poetry and selling calligraphy. Seigan established Edo-period Japan’s largest poetry society and attained nationwide renown as a literary figure, as well as taking part in stealthy political activities in the years before the Meiji Restoration. Kōran was one of the most accomplished female composers of Sinitic poetry in Japanese history. After her husband’s death, she was arrested and imprisoned for six months as part of a crackdown on political reform. Seigan and Kōran’s works at once display mastery of a poetic tradition and depict Japan on the brink of monumental change. The Same Moon Shines on All explores the world of Seigan and Kōran, pairing an in-depth account of their lives and times with an inviting selection of their poetry. The book features eminent Sinologist Jonathan Chaves’s translations of more than 130 poems by Seigan and more than 50 by Kōran, each annotated and followed by the original Chinese text. An introduction by Matthew Fraleigh, a specialist in Japan’s Sinitic literature, offers insight into the historical and literary context as well as the poems themselves. Approachable and delightful, this book makes the riches of Japanese Sinitic poetry available to a range of readers.

Demorests Monthly Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889

Demorests Monthly Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Dressmaking categories.

The Dutch Language In Japan 1600 1900

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Author : Christopher Joby
language : en
Publisher: Brill's Studies in Language, C
Release Date : 2020-12-17

The Dutch Language In Japan 1600 1900 written by Christopher Joby and has been published by Brill's Studies in Language, C this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

"In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. For most of this period, the Dutch were the only Europeans permitted to trade with Japan. Using the analytical tool of language process, this book explores the nature and consequences of contact between Dutch and Japanese and other language varieties. The processes analysed include language learning, contact and competition, code switching, translation, lexical, syntactic and graphic interference, and language shift. The picture that emerges is that the multifarious uses of Dutch, especially the translation of Dutch books, would have a profound effect on the language, society, culture and intellectual life of Japan"--