The Akita Ranga School and the cultural context in Edo Japan Riko, Imahashi
Series: LTCB international library selection ; 34Publication details: Tokyo International House of Japan 2016Description: xv, 434 pISBN:- 9784924971417
- 751.4252 R4A5
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Table of Contents:
I. Before the Discovery of Shinobazu Pond
1. Akita Ranga in Japanese Art/Rethinking The Dawn of Western-Style Painting in Japan
II. Topos and Image/Shinobazu Pond
2. Shinobazu Pond as a Topos
3. The Beauty by the Edge of the Pond
III. Visual Framing Devices/The Circular Window
4. Withing the Circular Window
5. The Framing Window and Borrowed Scenery: The Literati Window
6. An Unrecognized Avant-Gardism
Translated by Ruth S. McCreery.
Since the late nineteenth-century emergence of japonisme in the Western art world, the work of ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro has come to be widely appreciated in the West. Recognition of other genres of Edo-period painting has, however, lagged behind. In this volume, noted scholar Imahashi Riko brings new light to a pioneering group of young artists who flourished for less than a decade in the 1770's before disappearing into obscurity. While the artists of the the Akita Ranga school belonged to the Akita domain in the north of Japan, it was in Edo (present-day Tokyo), the political and cultural center of the country, that-during Japan's long period of national seclusion-they encountered books imported from the West and sought to develop a new style combining Western perspective methods and chiaroscuro with traditional motifs and compositions of Asian-bird-and-flower and landscape painting. The masterpiece of the Akita Ranga school, and the focus of this book, is Shinobazu Pond by Odano Natake. In this one work of art, which seems on the surface to be a tranquil landscape painting, are hidden allusions to portraits of beauties in Chinese art and literature, to legends about Shinobazu Pond in Japan and West Lake in China, and to contemporary Edo popular culture. Drawing on a quarter of a century of close study of Edo-period art and culture, Imahashi provides, in this major work of scholarhip, valuable context to the oeuvre of a group struggling to reconcile the art and thought of East and West a century before the 'opening' of Japan in the Meiji period, as well as insight into the thinking of Naotake, whose tragically short career was ended by his death in 1780, at the age of thirty.
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