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Cover illustration: Photograph of objects from East Asia, after 1911. Städtische Sammlungen Freiburg i. Br., Photographie und Verlag G. Röbcke, Freiburg i. Br. Photo: Universitätsarchiv der Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg i. Br.©; Japonsche rok, India, Coromandel Coast, made for the Dutch market, early 18th century. Cotton, painted resist and mordant, dyed. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 959.112; Portable smoking set, Japan, Edo period, 1603–1868. Lacquer pipe case by Shibata Zeshin (1807–1891). Gold, silver hiramaki-e lacquer; pipe: iron, gold, and silver on wood; sarasa tobacco pouch. Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015.500.243 a, b.; Horikawa Michio holding his “stone mail art” with a mailing tag with the phrase “地球の石” (Chikyū no ishi, “the stone on the earth”) in 1971. Photo by Imai Mikio. Courtesy of the artist.
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Names: Trede, Melanie, editor. | Wakita, Mio, editor. | Guth, Christine, editor.
Title: Japanese art : transcultural perspectives / edited by Melanie Trede, Mio Wakita, Christine M.E. Guth.
Other titles: Japanese art (Brill Academic Publishers)
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024] | Series: Studies in Asian art and archaeology, 1380-782X ; volume 29 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024039113 (print) | LCCN 2024039114 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004337701 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004704176 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Art, Japanese–Cross-cultural studies. | Art–Historiography–Cross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC N7350 .J347 2024 (print) | LCC N7350 (ebook) | DDC 709.52–dc23/eng/20240918
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ISSN 1380-782X
ISBN 978-90-04-33770-1 (hardback)
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DOI 10.1163/9789004704176
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