Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes

Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes
Author: Yoshio Markino
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2011-12-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004220399

The Japanese artist Yoshio Markino enjoyed a successful career in early twentieth century London as an artist and author. This book examines his uniquely Asian perspective on British society and culture at a time when Japan eagerly sought engagement with the West.

Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes

Edwardian London through Japanese Eyes
Author: William S. Rodner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-12-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 900424946X

Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes considers the career of the Japanese artist Yoshio Markino (1869-1956), a prominent figure on the early twentieth-century London art scene whose popular illustrations of British life adroitly blended stylistic elements of East and West. He established his reputation with watercolors for the avant-garde Studio magazine and attained success with The Colour of London (1907), the book that offered, in word and picture, his outsider’s response to the modern Edwardian metropolis. Three years later he recounted his British experiences in an admired autobiography aptly titled A Japanese Artist in London. Here, and in later publications, Markino offered a distinctively Japanese perspective on European life that won him recognition and fame in a Britain that was actively engaging with pro-Western Meiji Japan. Based on a wide range of unpublished manuscripts and Edwardian commentary, this lavishly illustrated book provides a close examination of over 150 examples of his art as well analysis of his writings in English that covered topics as wide-ranging as the English and Japanese theater, women’s suffrage, current events in the Far East and observations on traditional Asian art as well as Western Post-Impressionism. Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes, the first scholarly study of this neglected artist, demonstrates how Markino became an agent of cross-cultural understanding whose beautiful and accessible work provided fresh insights into the Anglo-Japanese relationship during the early years of the twentieth century.

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan
Author: Tomoe Kumojima
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2022
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0198871430

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912.

History of Illustration

History of Illustration
Author: Susan Doyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1501342118

"Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--

Yoshijiro Urushibara

Yoshijiro Urushibara
Author: Hilary Chapman
Publisher: Brill Hotei
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Yoshijiro Urushibara: A Japanese printmaker in London is a catalogue raisonn of the work of Yoshijiro Urushibara (1889-1953), a Japanese artist and craftsman who lived and worked in London from 1910 to 1940. During his thirty years in Europe, Urushibara produced a considerable number of prints and played a major role in encouraging the production and appreciation of the colour woodcut in the Japanese manner, especially in Britain. Throughout his career Urushibara contributed to cross-cultural interactivity, collaborating with several European artists. His most famous and successful collaboration was with the British artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). The authors had unique access to the artist's family archive in Tokyo and recorded and evaluated the extent of Urushibara's print production. With fully researched catalogue entries, full-colour illustrations, and illuminating biographical and contextual essays, this publication - the first of its kind in the English language - provides a comprehensive account of Urushibara's life and oeuvre.

Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan

Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan
Author: Andrew L. Maske
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781409407560

Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan traces the development of one of Japan's best-documented ceramic types, Takatori ware, from 1600-1871. Spanning cultural, aesthetic, economic and practical aspects, this study explores the operation of Takatori as the official ceramic workshop of the Kuroda, lords of one of Japan's largest domains. The book includes illustrations of outstanding pieces from all seven workshop locations, some which have never before been published.

The Female as Subject

The Female as Subject
Author: P.F. Kornicki
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2010-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1929280653

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century