Challenging Past And Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art

312 Pages·2006·5.041 MB·English

by  Ellen P. Conant (editor)

Challenging Past and Present

Edited by Ellen P. Conant
Challenging
Past and Present
The Metamorphosis of
Nineteenth-Century
Japanese Art
University of Hawai‘i Press
Honolulu
Publication of this book has been assisted by a grant
from The Blakemore Foundation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Challenging past and present : the metamorphosis of
nineteenth-century Japanese art / edited by Ellen P.
Conant.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8248-2937-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Art, Japanese — 19th century. 2. Japan —
Civilization — 19th century. I. Conant, Ellen P.
N7354.C45 2006
709'.52'09034 — dc22
2005024345
University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-
free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence
and durability of the Council on Library Resources.
Designed by April Leidig-Higgins
Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
To Marius B. Jansen
Stalwart champion of
Meiji art historical studies

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transliteration xv
 Introduction:
A Historiographical Overview 
Ellen P. Conant
Part  “History” Reviewed and Visualized
2 Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Japan 3
Marius B. Jansen
3 History Painting in the Meiji Era:
A Consideration of the Issues 56
Takashina Shūji
4 Mori Ōgai’s Phantom Partner:
The Development of a Public for
Western-style Painting in Meiji Japan 65
J. Thomas Rimer
Part 2 Resituating Yokohama
5 Innovational Adaptations:
Contacts between Japanese and Western
Artists in Yokohama, 859–899 83
Sawatari Kiyoko
6 Expectation and Authenticity in
Meiji Tourist Photography 4
Allen Hockley
7 Gorgeous with Glitter and Gold:
Miyagawa Kōzan and the Role
of Satsuma Export Ware in the
Early Meiji Ceramic Industry 33
Clare Pollard
Part 3 Reconfiguring Painting Traditions
8 In Quest of the Real:
Portrayal and Photography in
Japanese Painting Theory 53
Doris Croissant
9 Meiji Response to Bunjinga 77
Christine M. E. Guth
0 The Image of Kannon as Compassionate
Mother in Meiji Art and Culture 97
Martin Collcutt
Part 4 Architecture and Expositions:
Intent and Implementation
 Reassessing the Rokumeikan 227
Dallas Finn
2 Japanese Imperial Architecture:
From Thomas Roger Smith to Itō Chūta 240
Toshio Watanabe
3 Japan “Abroad” at the Chicago
Exposition, 893 254
Ellen P. Conant
Contributors 28
Index 283
Plates follow pages 176 and 240
Illustrations
Plates
Following page 176
Plate . Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (839 – 892). The Imperial Procession
Crossing Kyōbashi.
Plate 2. Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. 850 – 880). Imported Silk Reeling
Machine in Tsukiji.
Plate 3. Inoue Yasuji (864 – 889). Illustrated English-Japanese
language text.
Plate 4. Kawakami Tōgai (828 – 88). Trees.
Plate 5. Honda Kinkichirō (850 – 92). Celestial in Feather Robes.
Plate 6. Indō Matate (86 – 94). Enlistment of a Soldier in Ancient
Times.
Plate 7. Takahashi Yuichi (828 – 894). Kusanoki at the Nyōirin Temple.
Plate 8. Kuroda Seiki (866 – 924). A Legend.
Plate 9. Julius Exter (863 – 939). Naojirō Harada.
Plate 0. Harada Naojirō (863 – 899). The Shoemaker.
Plate . Harada Naojirō (863 – 899). Kannon Riding on a Dragon.
Plate 2. Attributed to Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (827 – 885).
Commodore Perry Coming Ashore at Yokohama.
Plate 3. Charles Wirgman (832 – 89). Portait of Goseda Hōryū I.
Plate 4. Shimo’oka Renjō (823 – 94). Dutch Genre Scene.
Plate 5. Attributed to Goseda Hōryū (827 – 892). Foreign Man Dressed
in Japanese Clothing.
Plate 6. Felice Beato (833/34? – c. 908). Shimizu Seiji’s remains.
Plate 7. Felice Beato (833/34? – c. 908). The Executioner.
Plate 8. Miyagawa Kōzan (842 – 96). Satsuma-style lidded bowl.
Plate 9. Miyagawa Kōzan (842 – 96). Ōta ware, Satsuma-style
hanaike vase.
Plate 20. Miyagawa Kōzan (842 – 96). Satsuma-style vase with
design of warriors.
Plate 2. Watanabe Kazan (793 – 84). Sketch No. 11 for the Portrait of
Satō Issai.
Plate 22. Yokoyama Matsusaburō (838 – 884). Foreigner, Advertising
the shashin abura-e (photographic oil painting) of a Samurai with
Topknot.
Plate 23. Takahashi Yuichi (828 – 894). Portrait of the Meiji Emperor.
Plate 24. Kishida Ryūsei (89 – 929). Portrait of Koya Yoshio.
Following page 240
Plate 25. Noguchi Shōhin (847 – 97), Okuhara Seiko (837-93) et al.
Collaborative Painting (gassaku).
Plate 26. Tanomura Chikuden (777 – 835). Conversation under the Full
Moon.
Plate 27. Tomioka Tessai (836 – 924). The Founders of the Three Faiths
Crossing the Sea.
Plate 28. Kanō Hōgai (828 – 888). Kannon as Compassionate Mother,
888.
Plate 29. Kanō Hōgai (828 – 888). Kannon as Compassionate Mother,
884.
Plate 30. Original 887 appearance of the Rokumeikan.
Plate 3. Hashimoto Chikanobu (838 – 92). Concert of Western Music.
Plate 32. Josiah Conder (852 – 920). Partial view of Ueno Museum.
Plate 33. Itō Chūta (867 – 954). Heian Shrine.
Plate 34. Kubota Beisen (852 – 906). Art exhibited at the World’s
Columbian Exposition.
Plate 35. Kawashima Jimbei II (835 – 90). The Festival at Nikkō.
Figures
75 Figure . Harada Naojirō (863 – 899). Drawing for the cover of
Omokage (Vestiges).
76 Figure 2. Harada Naojirō (863 – 899). Drawing for the Mori Ōgai
story “Fumizukai” (The Courier).
27 Figure 3. Harakiri photograph.
43 Figure 4. Mark on base of Kōzan Satsuma-style vase.
62 Figure 5. Yokoyama Matsusaburō (838 – 884). “A Man Spreading
Open His Eyelid.”
82 Figure 6. Tanomura Chikuden (777 – 835). From Carrying Brush
and Ink.
26 Figure 7. Kanō Hōgai (828 – 888). Sketch of Kannon.
22 Figure 8. Seated Kannon and Child, Senju-in, Ino.
229 Figure 9. Rokumeikan balconies showing “Moorish” railings.
237 Figure 0. Peers Club, formerly the Rokumeikan, after 897
reconstruction.
256 Figure . Court of Honor, World’s Columbian Exposition.
264 Figure 2. Hō-ō-den, World’s Columbian Exposition.
27 Figure 3. Photograph of artist Suzuki Chōkichi, with falconer, and
designer Hayashi Tadamasa.