1st Edition
Japan and Japonisme The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture
Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture explores Japan’s engagement with and responses to Japonisme, and presents new perspectives on the history and enduring influence of Japonisme as a cultural discourse. The term "Japonisme" has come to encapsulate the West’s interests in Japanese arts and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Japonisme contributed to Japan’s global reputation as an artistic nation, but it also produced persistent stereotypes about the Japanese, such as the image of "geisha."
This pioneering anthology also demonstrates how Japan has espoused the modern Western fascination with its arts and culture to create and promote its national cultural identity. Japan and Japonisme introduces innovative studies on Japonisme by leading experts in the field, and covers the visual arts, art criticism and exhibitions, fashion, literature, horticulture, and popular culture in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Foreword
MIYAZAKI Katsumi
Acknowledgments, Notes to Readers, List of Illustrations
Introduction: Japonisme Reconsidered
Yoko TAKAGI and Noriko MURAI
Part I Histories of Japonisme as a Discursive Field
1. The Development of Japonisme Studies: A Retrospective, Viewed Obliquely
INAGA Shigemi
2. Ernest Chesneau, The First Critic of Edgar Degas’s Japonisme
Sophie BASCH
3. On the Marginalization of Japonisme in Western Art History
Greg M. THOMAS
4. The Evolving Perception of Japonisme in Japan, 1900–1940
MINAMI Asuka
5. Japonisme Through the Eyes of the Japanese : The History of Its Reception in Japan, 1870s–2010s
MABUCHI Akiko
Part II Japan as the Agent of Japonisme
6. Japan’s Other National Museum : The Commodity Exhibition Hall and Japonisme as Industrial Policy
ISHII Motoaki
7. From Japonisme to Japanism (Nihonshugi): Yone Noguchi’s Writings and Poems on Ukiyo-e
Sachi NAKACHI
8. Japanese Government Travel Posters in the 1930s: A New Japonisme by the Japanese
KIDA Takuya
Part III Transnational Modalities of Japonisme, Past and Present
9. Morning Glories in Anglophone Japonisme—Gardening, Haiku, and Zen
Yorimitsu HASHIMOTO
10. From Mousmé to Shōjo: The Representation of the Cute Japanese Girl in French Media
Kyoko KOMA
11. Celebration or Condemnation? Appropriating Claude Monet’s La Japonaise in Contemporary Japan and the United States
Noriko MURAI
12. Globalizing the Kimono : Analyzing Contemporary Culture through the Lens of Japonisme Studies
Yoko TAKAGI
Afterword
FUJIHARA Sadao
Index
Biography
Noriko Murai is professor of modern Japanese art history at Sophia University, Tokyo. Her publications in English include Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia (2009), Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900 (2014), and Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2022).
