1st Edition
Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods The arts of reinvention
1. Introduction - Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng Part I 2. Warriors in the Capital: Kobori Enshū and Kyoto Cultural Hybridity - Morgan Pitelka 3. From Kyoto to Edo and Back: Karasumaru Mitsuhiro as a Seventeenth-Century Diplomatic and Cultural Emissary - Elizabeth Lillehoj 4. Subversive Shelf Decoration: The Princeton Sagamigawa Picture Scrolls - Patrick Schwemmer Part II 5. Urban Parks and Imperial Memory: The Formation of Kyoto Imperial Garden and Okazaki Park as Sites of Cultural Revival - Alice Y. Tseng 6. Rescuing Temples and Empowering Art: Naiki Jinzaburō and the Rise of Civic Initiatives in Meiji Kyoto - Yasuko Tsuchikane 7. Naturalism Fusing Past and Present: The Reconfiguration of the Kyoto School of Painting and the Revival of the Textile Industry - Julia Sapin Epilogue 8. A Kyoto Garden Renewal? From Meiji to Early Showa Period - Toshio Watanabe
Biography
Morgan Pitelka is a Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Carolina Asia Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His publications include Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (2015).
Alice Y. Tseng is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, USA. Her publications include The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation (2008).
'...this volume is an informative and insightful investigation into the cultural history of Kyoto with an approach potentially applicable to the study of other cities and communities.'
Akiko Walley, University of Oregon
The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer 2018
