1st Edition
Japan and Britain after 1859 Creating Cultural Bridges
By Olive Checkland
Copyright 2003
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which... Read more
Part I: The Price of Seclusion - Shirts, Studs and Wash Hand Basins; The Great Exhibition as a Cultural Bridge; Affirmative Action, Abroad and in Japan; Yokohama muki , Japanese Export Ware Part II - In Japan - Maruzen abd the Foreign Book Trade; Western Architecture and Japanese Architects; Christopher Dresser, and Industrial Design; Paintings, Photographs and Prints Part III - In Britain - Japonisme for all; Collecting Japanese Art; Three Painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons; 'The Lovely Flower Land of the Far East', Travel Writing about Japan Part IV - The Commercial Spin Off - Japan British Exhibition, London 1910; Shopping for Japoniserie Part V - Four Bridge Builders - Painter, Poet, Pearl Maker and Potter - Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach
Biography
At present Olive is fellow (Overseas) Fukuzawa Memorial Centre, Keio University, Tokyo, jaoan. She is also Associate Editor of teh new Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University press) with responsibility for Nineteenth Century East Asian entries.
