Japan and Britain after 1859
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Anglo-Japanese artistic interaction
art
Author_Olive Checkland
british
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Category=JBCC
Category=NHD
Category=NHF
Category=NHTB
Christopher Dresser
cross-cultural material culture
Cultural Bridges
decorative arts history
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eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
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exhibition
Exhibition Movement
Export Ware
export ware studies
Frank Brangwyn
fukuzawa
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Gogh
Imperial Japanese Navy
Imre Kiralfy
Iwakura Mission
Japan British Exhibition
japanese
Japanese Art
Japanese Art Objects
Japonisme influence
Kido Takayoshi
lacquer
Lacquer Ware
Lady Brassey
Laurence Binyon
Matsukata Kojiro
Meiji modernisation
menpes8
mortimer
Mortimer Menpes
Satsuma Ware
South Kensington Museum
transnational cultural exchange
Vienna Exposition
Vincent Van Gogh
Wall Hangings
ware
Young Men
yukichi
Product details
- ISBN 9781138862883
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 underpinned them. At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, industrial design, prints, painting and photographs, together with a consideration of Japanese government policy, the Japan-Britain Exhibition of 1910, and commercial spin-offs. In addition, there are case studies of key individuals who were particularly influential in fostering British-Japanese cultural bridges in this period.
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.
