| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Asia perspectives |
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Asia perspectives.
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year |
| Summary |
Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exile, Kazan's life and work reflected a turbulent period in Japan's history. He was a famous artist, a Confucian scholar, a student of Western culture, a samurai, and a critic of the shogunate who, nevertheless, felt compelled to kill himself for fear that he had caused his lord anxiety. During this period, a typical Japanese scholar or artist refused to acknowledge the outside |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
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Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841 |
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Painters -- Japan -- Biography
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ART -- History -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
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Intellectual life
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Painters
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Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868.
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
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| LC no. |
2005034247 |
| ISBN |
0231511035 |
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9780231511032 |
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