The Shogun’s Painted Culture
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The Shogun’s Painted Culture

Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States 1760–1829

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eBook - ePub

The Shogun’s Painted Culture

Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States 1760–1829

About this book

In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu, who played a key role in defining what we think of as Japanese culture today. Aware of how visual representations could support or undermine regimes, Sadanobu promoted painting to advance his own political aims and improve the shogunate's image. As an antidote to the hedonistic ukiyo-e, or floating world, tradition, which he opposed, Sadanobu supported attempts to construct a new approach to painting modern life. At the same time, he sought to revive historical and literary painting, favouring such artists as the flamboyant, innovative Maruyama Okyo. After the city of Kyoto was destroyed by fire in 1788, its reconstruction provided the stage for the renewal of Japan's iconography of power, the consummation of the 'shogun's painted culture'.

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Information

Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781861890641
eBook ISBN
9781861896889
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chronology
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Matsudaira Sadanobu and the Domestic Dilemma
  10. 2 Sugita Genpaku and the Dismemberment of the Present
  11. 3 Image Management for Royal Power
  12. 4 Ōkyo’s ‘New Concept’
  13. 5 Boundaries for a Centre
  14. References
  15. Select Bibliography
  16. Photographic Acknowledgements
  17. Index

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