Japan and Britain after 1859 : creating cultural bridges / Olive Checkland.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-232) and index.

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Part Part I The price of seclusion -- chapter 1 Shirts, studs and wash hand basins -- chapter 2 The Great Exhibition as a cultural bridge -- chapter 3 Affirmative action, abroad and in Japan -- chapter 4 Yokohama muki -- Japanese export ware -- part Part II In Japan -- chapter 5 Maruzen and the foreign book trade -- chapter 6 Western architecture and Japanese architects -- chapter 7 Christopher Dresser and industrial design -- chapter 8 Paintings, photographs and prints -- part Part III In Britain -- chapter 9 Japonisme for all -- chapter 10 Collecting Japanese art -- chapter 11 Three painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons -- chapter 12 'The lovely flower land of the Far East' -- Travel writing about Japan -- part Part IV The commercial spin-off -- chapter 13 The Japan British Exhibition, London, 1910 -- chapter 14 Shopping for Japonoiserie -- part Part V Four bridge builders -- chapter 15 Painter, poet, pearl-maker and potter -- Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach.

This work examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Britain and Japan in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the 20th century. Topics covered include: architecture; industrial design; prints; painting; and photographs.

In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which underpinned them. At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, industrial design, prints, painting and photographs, together with a consideration of Japanese government policy, the Japan-Britain Exhibition of 1910, and commercial spin-offs. In addition, there are case studies of key individuals who were particularly influential in fostering British-Japanese cultural bridges in this period. In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West to learn modern industrial techniques, including the design and engineering skills which underpinned them. At the same time, taking great pride in their own culture, they exhibited and sold high quality products of traditional Japanese craftsmanship in the West, stimulating a thirst for, and appreciation of, Japanese arts and crafts. This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century. Topics covered include architecture, industrial design, prints, painting and photographs, together with a consideration of Japanese government policy, the Japan-Britain Exhibition of 1910, and commercial spin-offs. In addition, there are case studies of key individuals who were particularly influential in fostering British-Japanese cultural bridges in this period.

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