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Picturing the Floating World

Ukiyo-e in Context

By: Julie Nelson Davis

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Picturing the Floating World

Ukiyo-e in Context

By: Julie Nelson Davis

Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In Picturing the Floating World, Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and sold, appraised and collected, and described and recorded ukiyo-e. She recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and the creation of a canon of makers—both of which have defined the field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e’s history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century. The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural, and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.

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225

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824889339

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9780824889333

The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

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The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle). In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.

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145

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Anchor

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0307700461

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9780307700469

Japan's International Relations

Politics, Economics and Security

By: Glenn D. Hook,Julie Gilson,Christopher W. Hughes,Hugo Dobson

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Japan's International Relations

Politics, Economics and Security

By: Glenn D. Hook,Julie Gilson,Christopher W. Hughes,Hugo Dobson

The new edition of this comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying Japan's international relations.

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680

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Routledge

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1134328052

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9781134328055

Researching Identity, Diversity and Education

Surpassing the Norm

By: Julie Yamanashi,Ivana Milojevic

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Researching Identity, Diversity and Education

Surpassing the Norm

By: Julie Yamanashi,Ivana Milojevic

Proceedings of of post-graduate student conference. Topics include: Leadership and educational futures; Culture; Gender, ethics and inclusion and Language acquisition.

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180

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1876682914

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9781876682910

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Picturing the Floating World

Picturing the Floating World

The Buddha in the Attic

The Buddha in the Attic

Japan's International Relations

Japan's International Relations

Researching Identity, Diversity and Education

Researching Identity, Diversity and Education

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