{"product_id":"japan-envisions-the-west-yukiko-shirahara-9780295987408","title":"Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book features significant works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. \u003ci\u003eJapan Envisions the West \u003c\/i\u003econsiders how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps bear important witness in telling the story of how each region recognized and understood the lands of the other. Selected maps mark milestones in illustrating each state of understanding between Japan and the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePortuguese and Spanish missionaries and merchants from the late sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries conveyed Western culture, religion, art, food, and music to the Japanese, and they were the first Westerners to have a strong impact in Japan. Namban refers to Japanese art created under the influence of Portugal and Spain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Christianity was excluded from Japan in the 1630s, Nagasaki became the only port open for trading with Dutch merchants. Artists in this region, especially painters serving the government, had the opportunity to see foreign people, culture, and art firsthand. They made visual records, copied important objects, and studied these records for their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Tokugawa Shogunate Yoshimune relaxed restrictions on imported Western books in 1720, with the exception of Christian books, scholarly artists and scientists were free to study them, leading to Komo, Japanese art created under the influence of Holland, and to more popular paintings, prints, and decorative arts that demonstrate the fusion of Japanese and Western styles. At the same time, objects were made specifically for trade with Europe through the East India Companies established in European countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, visual images produced in the nineteenth century show the effort, surprise, and curiosity of the Japanese as they tried to understand America and Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yukiko Shirahara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295987405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295987408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.24h x 9.40w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 215","brand":"Yukiko Shirahara","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482430562559,"sku":"9780295987408","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2142d8eb-895e-4a5a-8ef5-fd631c9cabc5.jpg?v=1715998510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/japan-envisions-the-west-yukiko-shirahara-9780295987408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}