History of Art 135B Spring Later Japanese Painting Schedule and Reading Assignments

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1 HA135B Spring 2003/ 1 History of Art 135B Spring 2003 Later Japanese Painting Schedule and Reading Assignments January 21 (T): Episodes in Later Japanese Painting THE AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA PERIOD ( ) The Kano School; Visualizing the Capital Jan. 23 (Th): Professional Painters and Elite Consumers-- the Kano Work Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp ; Yoshiaki Shimizu, Workshop Management of the Early Kano Painters, ca. A.D , Archives of Asian Art 34(1981):1-14. Carolyn Wheelwright, Kano Painters of the Sixteenth Century A.D.: The Development of Motonobu s Daisen in Style, Archives of Asian Art 34(1981):6-31. Jan. 28 (T): The Energy of Dancing Cranes or Slithering Snakes --Kano Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Money L. Hickman, Painting, in Japan s Golden Age: Momoyama, pp Carolyn Wheelwright, A Visualization of Eitoku s Lost Paintings at Azuchi Castle, in Warriors, Artists, and Commoners, ed. Elison, Smith (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1981) pp January 30 (Th): Views in-and-around Kyoto -- Fact or Fiction in Pan Painting Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp ; Mathew Mckelway, In or Out of the Capital? Reading Point of View in Rakuchu Rakugai Zu, Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies XL(1995): Elizabeth Berry, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994). February 4 (T): Outside the Kano Atelier-- To haku ( ) and Sess Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Ann Yonemura, Mounting and Conservation of Japanese Painting, Asian Art and Culture 9/1 (Winter 1996):53-67.

2 HA135B Spring 2003/ 2 Barbara B. Ford, The Self-Portrait of Sesson Shu kei, Archives of Asian Art 33(1982):6-26. February 6 (Th): The Image She Left Behind-- Momoyama and Early Edo Port Christine Guth, Portraiture, in Japan s Golden Age: Momoyama, ed. Money L. Hickman, pp Browse-- Portraiture, in Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, ed. Yoshiaki Shimizu (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988), pp February 11 (T): Meeting the West-- Painting and the Southern Barbarian Grace Vlam, Kings and Heroes: Western-style Painting in Momoyama Japan, Artibus Asiae 39(1978): Browse: Michael Cooper, ed., They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965). THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD ( ) Official Painting and Political Authority; Reviving and Retrieving the February 13 (Th): Kano Tan yu ( ) and the Painting of Authority ** Visual Analysis Exercise 1 due in class. Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp ; William Coaldrake, Nijo Castle and the Psychology of Architectural Intimidation, Architecture and Authority in Japan, pp Karen Gerhart, The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1999). James McLain, John Merrimen, Edo and Paris: Cities and Power, in Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, ed. James McClain et al. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp February 18 (T): Recovering the Place of Painting-- Kano School Painti Hiroshi Onishi, et al., Immortals and Sages: Paintings from Ryo anji Temple, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 51/1 (1993):2-25. Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp February 20 (Th): Painting at Court-- Emp. Gomizuno o ( ) and T Elizabeth Lillehoj, Flowers of the Capital: Imperial Sponsorship of Art in Seventeenth

3 HA135B Spring 2003/ 3 Century Kyoto, Orientations 27:8 (Sept. 1996): John Rosenfield, Japanese Studio Practice: The Tosa Family and the Imperial Painting Office in the Seventeenth Century, in The Artists s Workshop, ed. Peter M. Lukehart (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1993), pp Freer Gallery of Art, Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1997). February 25 (T): Rimpa Founders-- Ko etsu ( ) and So tatsu (ac Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Peter Glum, Layers of Meaning and Lyric Echoes in a Japanese Screen Painting of the So tatsu School, Oriental Art n.s., no. 1 (1980): Browse: Howard Link, Exquisite Visions: Rimpa Paintings from Japan (Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1980). February 27 (Th): Spreading Ripples-- Rimpa Painting and O gata Ko rin Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Browse: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Shin enkan Collection: Japanese Painting of the Edo Period (LA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986). Early Woodblock Prints and Edo Popular Culture March 4 (T): Early Ukiyoe Prints and the Floating World ** Take home Midterm Exam handed out. Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Donald Jenkins, Introduction, in The Floating World Revisited, pp Donald Shively, Popular Culture, in Early Modern Japan, Cambridge History of Japan ed. John W. Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), vol. 4, pp March 6 (Th): Innovations in Edo Print Culture--Brocade Prints and Per Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Tadashi Kobayashi, Mitate-e in the Art of the Ukiyo-e Artist Suzuki Harunobu, in The Floating World Revisited, ed. Donald Jenkins, pp Timon Screech, The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture, Archives of Asian Art 47(1994): March 11 (T): Picturing Women and Actors-- Utamaro ( ) and Sh unclear)

4 HA135B Spring 2003/ 4 ** Take home Midterm Exam due in class. Timothy Clark, Utamaro s Portraiture, Proceedings of The Japan Society, 130 (Win, 1997). Sumie Jones, Interminable Reflections: The Semiotics of Edo Arts, Imaging Reading Eros: Sexuality and Edo Culture, , pp Recommended Sarah E. Thompson, The Politics of Japanese Prints, in, Undercurrents in the Floating World: Censorship and Japanese Prints (New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1991), pp Paul Schalow, Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the Youth, in Martin Duberman, et al., ed., Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (New York: NAL Books, 1989), pp Pluralities of Painting Practice in the Eighteenth Century March 13 (Th): Resonance and True Views-- Yosa Buson ( ), Ike Ta Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Melinda Takeuchi, Transition; Culmination, Taiga s True Views, pp James Cahill, Scholar Painters of Japan: The Nanga School (New York: Asia Society, 1972). March 18 (T): Zenga-- Hakuin ( ) and Sengai ( ) Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Stephen Addiss, Hakuin Ekaku, The Art of Zen, pp Browse: Addiss, The Art of Zen (New York: Abrams, 1989). March 206 (Th): New Views to the West-- Shiba Ko kan ( ) and W Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp (top). Calvin French, Shiba Ko kan, pp (top). Masanobu Hosono, Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates (Tokyo: Ko dansha, 1978). March 24-28: Spring Recess April 1 (T): Optical Tools and Anatomical Views-- Maruyama O kyo s (173 Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp (top). Jo hei Sasaki, Okyo and the Maruyama-Shijo School of Japanese Painting, pp Timon Screech, The Western Scientific Gaze: Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (Cambridge:

5 HA135B Spring 2003/ 5 Cambridge University Press, 1996). April 3 (Th): Individualists -- Sho haku ( ) and Rosetsu ( ** Visual Analysis Exercise 2 due in class. Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Hickman, Sato, Painting in Eighteenth-century Kyoto, The Paintings of Jakuchu, pp Robert Singer, Edo: Art in Japan (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998). April 8 (T): The Greengrocer s Brush-- Ito Jakuchu ( ) ** Final Paper Outline/Bibliography due in class. Reading Yoshiaki Shimizu, Multiple Connections: The Vegetable Nehan of Ito Jakuchu, in Flowing Traces: Buddhism and the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, pp Recommended Browse: Hickman and Sato, The Paintings of Jakuchu (New York: Asia Society, 1989). April 10 (Th): The body I give up and burn -- Edo Period Women Artis Patricia Fister, Introduction; Waka Poets in Kyoto; Ukiyoe Painters and Printmakers, Japanese Women Artists, , pp. 9-15; 69-83; Patricia Fister, Women Artists in Traditional Japan; Stephen Addiss, The Three Women of Gion, in Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1990), pp Views of Fuji and To kaido Travelscapes April 15 (T): Hokusai ( ) and Views of Mt. Fuji John Rosenfield, Hokusai and Concepts of Eccentricity, Hokusai Painting, pp Yoko Woodson, Hokusai and Hiroshige: Landscape Prints of the Ukiyo-e School; Thirty- Six Views of Mount Fuji; in Hokusai and Hiroshige, pp ; Jack Hillier, The Manga, The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), pp April 17 (Th): Hiroshige ( ) and the To kaido Matthi Forrer, The Art of Hiroshige, Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings, pp

6 HA135B Spring 2003/ 6 Elizabeth Swinton, Hiroshige and His Pictures of Famous Places, Asian Art and Culture Spring (1992): Pat Fister, Pleasures and Dangers on the To kaido, in To kaido : Adventures on the Road in Old Japan, ed. Stephen Addiss (Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, 1980), pp April 22 (T): Utagawa Kunisada ( ) [and Masami Teraoka (1936- Sebastian Izzard, Kunisada the Artist, Kunisada s World, pp James Ulak, et al., Paintings by Masami Teraoka (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1996). Melinda Takeuchi, Kuniyoshi s Minamoto Raiko and the Earth Spider: Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan, Ars Orientalis 17(1987):5-38. MEIJI ( ), TAISHO ( ), AND SHO WA ( ) PERIODS Transformations of Meiji and the Painting of Modernity April 24 (Th): The West (again)-- Meiji Period Yo ga Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Shu ji Takashina, Eastern and Western Dynamics in the Development of Western-style Oil Painting during the Meiji Era, in Paris in Japan, pp Browse: Takashina et al., Paris in Japan (Tokyo: Japan Foundation, 1987). Browse: Frederick Baekeland, Imperial Japan: The Art of the Meiji Era (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1980). April 29 (T): Nativist Responses-- Kano Ho gai ( ) and Hashimot Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Ellen Conant, Introduction; The Tokyo School of Fine Arts; Tradition in Transition, , in Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese Style Painting, , ed. Ellen Conant et al., pp Biographies of and paintings by Ho gai and Gaho, in Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese Style Painting, May 1 (Th): Demon of Painting-- Kawanabe Kyo sai ( ) Timothy Clark, Introduction, Demon of Painting, pp Browse: Clark, Demon of Painting: The Art of Kawanabe Kyo sai (London: The British Museum, 1993). May 6 (T): Kyoto Nihonga-- Takeuchi Seiho ( ) and Uemura Sho e

7 HA135B Spring 2003/ 7 ** Research Paper due in class. Reading Mason, History of Japanese Art, pp Juku, the Private Teaching Atelier; The Kyoto Prefectural Painting School; Takeuchi Seiho and the Kyoto Painting Circle, in Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese Style Painting, , pp ; Recommended Biographies of and paintings by Seiho, Sho en, in Nihonga: Transcending the Past: Japanese Style Painting, (St. Louis: St. Louis Museum of Art, 1995). May 8 (Th): To be announced. To be announced. May 13 (T): Review for Final Exam (No section meetings). May 23 (Friday): Final Exam; exam group 19 (12:30-3:30pm)