Author/Editoredited by Frank Feltens with contributions by Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka
Other physical detailsillustrations (chiefly color)
Note (General)Catalog of an exhibiton held at National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, March 16-September 15, 2024
Note (Content)"Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art examines Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. It focuses on ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and as an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalog entries highlighting unusual artworks revealing Japanese artists' complex responses to Chinese art, history, and culture. Imagined Neighbors challenges the established narrative of an exclusively Western-inspired modern Japan by offering a more nuanced approach to understanding the country's struggle with reconciling the old with the new as it reinvented itself into a modern nation-state"--
Note (Bibliography)Includes bibliographical references and index