Aesthetic Strategies of the Floating World

Mitate, Yatsushi, and Fūryū In Early Modern Japanese Popular Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-20987-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 202 mm x 271 mm, Gewicht: 901 g

Reihe: Japanese Visual Culture

The East Asian classical tradition, with its repertoire of ancient narratives and established pictorial themes, was a major force driving cultural development in Japan during the early modern or Edo period (1615-1868). This book offers an in-depth account of three aesthetic concepts—mitate, yatsushi, and furyu—which influenced the way early-modern popular culture absorbed and responded to this force of cultural tradition. Combining literary, historical, and visual evidence, the book examines particularly how the three concepts guided artistic choices in the context of Floating World prints (ukiyo-e), and how the concepts have shaped the direction of ukiyo-e studies since the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Zielgruppe

Anyone interested in Japanese woodblock prints and popular culture during the Edo period; researchers examining the relationship between text and image; anyone considering the role of classical culture in popular contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haft, Alfred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Über Autor(innen)

Haft, Alfred
Alfred Haft, Ph.D., is a Project Curator in the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum, and a Research Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (Norwich).