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A world in print : foreigners in Japan's early modern Bankoku jinbutsu-zu.
Title:
A world in print : foreigners in Japan's early modern Bankoku jinbutsu-zu.
Author:
Parman, Alison R. (orcid)0000-0003-2932-0094
ISBN:
9781339976358
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Publication Information:
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016
Physical Description:
1 online resource (96 p.)
General Note:
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06.
Adviser: Akiko Walley.
Abstract:
Japanese woodblock prints featuring foreigners that appeared after the opening of ports such as Yokohama to international trade in the mid-nineteenth century are broadly referred to as Yokohama-e (or "Yokohama Pictures"). While there are already seminal studies that document the representation of Western peoples in Yokohama-e, those of Asian peoples have not yet received equal attention. This thesis focuses on a group of prints that include the word "all nations" ( bankoku) in their titles, particularly those of Utagawa Yoshiiku. Although these prints are currently considered a type of Yokohama-e, they are distinctively different from typical Yokohama-e in their scope, particularly in its inclusion of many Asian and mythical peoples. This study investigates how this group of "pictures of the peoples of all nations" (bankoku jinbutsu-zu) functioned as popular guides to the nations of the world and reflected the domestic new awareness for Japan's role within it.
Local Note:
School code: 0171.
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Thesis Note:
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2016.
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