Japan Envisions the West

Seattle: Seattle Art Museum : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2007. Hardcover folio in color illustrated cover (blue). 223 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 32 cm Very gentle bump to DJ head of spine. Else fine in fine DJ. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780295987408

Contents: Introduction: the painters of Japan and the West / Oka Yasumasa -- The reception of maps between Japan and the West / Onoda Kazuyuki -- Two streams of Namban painting / Narusawa Katsushi -- The art scene in and around Nagasaki / Narusawa Katsushi -- The influence of Ransho on Western-style painting / Katsumori Noriko -- The early copperplate prints of Shiba Kokan and Aodo Denzen / Tsukahara Akira -- Hollandisme in Japanese craftwork / Oka Yasumasa -- Japan and the West: export porcelain and lacquerware / Christiaan J.A. Jörg -- The opening of Japan and its visual culture / Tsukahara Akira. Art, Japanese -- European influences -- Exhibitions.Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 11, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008, Seattle Art Museum Downtown.