Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller, "The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Role of Visual Culture in Japan's Culture
In terms of the role of visual culture in japan's cultura, production o both during the major periodn after, how do you see they either speak to or defy the intellectual context. So talking about mage intellectuals, i will definitely look into the writings and ideas of ksawa yukiti who was a major intellectual. For him, japan should have travelled all the way to the islands, should have been attached to europe, in his discourse. But fene himself had somewhat been influenced by the ideas of fukuzawa. Nevertheless, he also thought about japan as an art museum, as a territory that encompasses the arts of asia, but becoming a unique
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