Takashina, Shūji,  1932- <br/><br/>
Japanese art in perspective :  east-west encounters / 
Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud. 
 - 1st English ed. 
 - Tokyo :  Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,  2021. 
 - 191 pages, viii pages of plates :  illustrations (some color) ;  22 cm. 
 - Japan library .
 - 75(52) (NLA) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Methods of Japanese Art. The Character of Japanese Aesthetics -- Object and Form -- Forms of Seeing, East and West -- The "Trailing Bough" Motif -- The Art of the Journey -- The Principle of Ornamentation -- Part II: East-West Encounters. East and West in Meiji Painting -- The Avant-Garde in Japanese Art -- Japanese Academism -- Some Problems of Japonisme -- Part III: Passing Beauty, Returning Memory. The Aesthetics of Transition: The Four Seasons and the Japanese Sense of Beauty -- "The Color of the Flowers": Symphonies of Image and Word -- The Heritage of Memory: Intangible Culture as Japanese Tradition. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9784866581804 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, Japanese--To 1868<br/>Painting, Japanese--Meiji period, 1868-1912<br/>Painting, Japanese--European influences<br/>Comparative arts
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>75(52) (NLA)