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Later Japan 1334 to the Present – Part 1

Later Japan 1334 to the Present – Part 1. Modern Japan The M. The Edo Period (1615—1868)

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Later Japan 1334 to the Present – Part 1

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  1. Later Japan1334 to the Present – Part 1

  2. Modern JapanThe M The Edo Period (1615—1868) In 1615, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, the final unifier of Japan, consolidated power and established a new shogunate that lasted until 1868. He set up his seat of power in Edo (modern Tokyo), also the name for this period. The new regime instituted many policies designed to limit severely Japan’s pace of social and cultural change. Christianity was banned and all foreigner, except for a small Dutch enclave at Nagasaki, were expelled. However, the population’s great expansion in urban centers, the spread of literacy in the cities and beyond, and a growing thirst for knowledge and diversion made for a lively popular culture. The licensed pleasure quarter of Edo, known as Yoshiwara, famed for its government-sanctioned brothels, kabuki theater, fashionable restaurants, and street entertainment, was a principal inspiration for many Ukiyo-e artists. It was here -- in this "floating world" of pleasure and entertainment -- that the confines of social class could be pushed aside. Various forms of entertainment, particularly kabuki theater and the pleasure quarters, lured monied patrons who were eager in turn to acquire the vivid images of celebrated actors and exquisite courtesans created by Ukiyo-e artists.

  3. During the Edo period, ukiyo-e (floating world) woodblock prints became enormously popular. Sold in small shops and on the street, an ordinary print went for the price of a bowl of noodles. People of very modest income, therefore, could collect prints in albums or paste them on their walls. A highly efficient production system made this wide distribution of Japanese graphic art possible. During the 19th century Ando Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai carried the popular art of printmaking to new heights. Hokusai selected landscapes as his ukiyo-e subjects because of increasing censorship. His Thirty Six views of mount Fuji make use of striking juxtapositions and bold linear designs. Nature was his primary subject, but, in its setting he also included genre and anecdote as minor themes.

  4. Hiroshige's "Famous places of the eastern capital" From this series is the "Snow at the field of Kameido tenman shrine."

  5. Hiroshige's "One hundred views of famous places of Edo"

  6. Suzuki Harunobu, Evening Bell at the Clock from Eight Views of the Parlor series, Edo period, ca. 1765 Woodblock print

  7. Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series, Edo period, ca. 1826-1833, woodblock print

  8. Takahashi Yuichi, Oiran (“Grand Courtesan’), Meiji period, 1872

  9. Yokoyama Taikan, Kutsugen, Itsukushima Shrine, Meiji period, 1898

  10. Kenzo Tange, national indoor Olympic stadiums, Showa period, 1963-64

  11. Hamada Shoji, large bowl, 1962. Black trails on translucent glaze

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