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Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) spent more time abroad than any other writer of his generation, firing the Japanese imagination with his visions of America and France. Applying the theoretical framework of Occidentalism to Japanese literature, Rachael Hutchinson explores Kafū's construction of the Western Other, an integral part of his critique of Meiji civilization. Through contrast with the Western Other, Kafū was able to solve the dilemma that so plagued Japanese intellectuals—how to modernize and yet retain an authentic Japanese identity in the modern world. Kafū's flexible positioning of imagined spaces like the "West" and the "Orient" ultimately led him to a definition of the Japanese Self. Hutchinson analyzes the wide range of Kafū's work, particularly those novels and stories reflecting Kafū's time in the West and the return to Japan, most unknown to Western readers and a number unavailable in English, along with his better-known depictions of Edo's demimonde. Kafū's place in Japan's intellectual history and his influence on other writers are also discussed.

Civilization, Western, in literature --- East and West in literature --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Nagai, Sōkichi --- Kafu, Nagai --- 永井荷風 --- 永井苛風 --- 永井荷风 --- 永开荷風 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Japan --- In literature. --- Civilization, Western, in literature. --- East and West in literature. --- Literature. --- Nagai, Kafū, --- Japan. --- J4127 --- J4129 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social identity and self --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Nagai, Kafu,

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In earlier times, for the Chinese, Korea was 'the country of courteous people from the east', and for westerners 'the land of the morning calm' or 'hermit kingdom'. In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country, providing the reader with a wide selection of first-hand accounts by travellers who 'discovered' Korea - some as snapshots by those passing through, others more detailed evaluations of Korean culture and everyday life by those who spent time there. The collection covers a period of over 400 years - from H

Korea --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- K9200 --- K9300 --- K9310.90 --- Korea: Geography and local history -- united and South Korea --- Korea: Social sciences -- general, social and cultural history --- Korea: Society, social psychology and social-anthropological phenomena (South) Korea -- cross cultural contacts and contrasts

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Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s.Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in turn-of-the-century Boston; and the mid-twentieth-century circles of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a groundbreaking integration of well-known and forgotten episodes and personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional scholarly investments in the heroism of avant-garde accomplishment and ideals of cultural authenticity.

Aesthetics, Japanese --- Japonism --- East and West --- Masculinity in art --- Masculinity in literature --- Queer theory --- J6020 --- J4178 --- J4129 --- Gender identity --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in art --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- Japanism (Art) --- Japonisme --- Art, Modern --- Japanese aesthetics --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender, men --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Japanese influences --- Aesthetics, Japanese. --- East and West. --- Masculinity in art. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Queer theory.

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Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes considers the career of the Japanese artist Yoshio Markino (1869-1956), a prominent figure on the early twentieth-century London art scene whose popular illustrations of British life adroitly blended stylistic elements of East and West. He established his reputation with watercolors for the avant-garde Studio magazine and attained success with The Colour of London (1907), the book that offered, in word and picture, his outsider’s response to the modern Edwardian metropolis. Three years later he recounted his British experiences in an admired autobiography aptly titled A Japanese Artist in London . Here, and in later publications, Markino offered a distinctively Japanese perspective on European life that won him recognition and fame in a Britain that was actively engaging with pro-Western Meiji Japan. Based on a wide range of unpublished manuscripts and Edwardian commentary, this lavishly illustrated book provides a close examination of over 150 examples of his art as well analysis of his writings in English that covered topics as wide-ranging as the English and Japanese theater, women’s suffrage, current events in the Far East and observations on traditional Asian art as well as Western Post-Impressionism. Edwardian London Through Japanese Eyes , the first scholarly study of this neglected artist, demonstrates how Markino became an agent of cross-cultural understanding whose beautiful and accessible work provided fresh insights into the Anglo-Japanese relationship during the early years of the twentieth century.

City and town life --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- History --- Makino, Yoshio, --- Markino, Yoshio, --- Markino, Heiji, --- 牧野義雄, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- London (England) --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs --- Description --- J2284.70 --- J4129 --- J6008.70 --- J6008.80 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, meiji, taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Makino, Yoshio --- 牧野義雄

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Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z 5 "Mokp'o's Tears": Marginality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary South Korea -- 6 Economies of "Soft Power": Rereading Waves from Nepal -- 7 Embracing Postcolonial Potentiality: New Faces of Pro-Japanese Collaborators in Contemporary Korea -- PART IV: POLITICS OF THE POSSIBLE -- 8 Chang Hyŏkchu and Japan's Koma Shrine: Koreans in Japan, Past and Present -- 9 Nakahira Takuma and the Photographic Topographies of Possibility -- 10 Translation and Censorship: Colonial Writing and Anti-imperial Imagination of Asia in 1910s Korea -- Afterword: "Time's Envelope"--Bibliography Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Movement, Collaboration, Spaces of Difference -- PART I: SPACES OF THE COLONIAL PRESENT -- 1 The Remains of Colonial History -- 2 When Is a Prison like a Folk Art Museum? Movement, Affect, and the After-Colonial in Seoul and Tokyo -- PART II: LANDSCAPES OF THE POSSIBLE -- 3 The Global Image: Art, Urbanism, and Gathering Politics in Korea, Japan, and the World -- 4 You Were Right about the Stars: Reading a History of War and Occupation in the Streets of Koza -- PART III: RESTRUCTURING PLACE

Public spaces --- Spatial behavior --- Difference (Psychology) --- Differential psychology --- Psychology, Differential --- Differentiation (Developmental psychology) --- Psychology --- Behavior, Spatial --- Proxemic behavior --- Space behavior --- Spatially-oriented behavior --- Space and time --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Social aspects --- Korea --- Japan --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Relations --- Social conditions --- J4812.12 --- J4129 --- K9310.90 --- K9551.11 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- Korea (South) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Korea: Society, social psychology and social-anthropological phenomena (South) Korea -- cross cultural contacts and contrasts --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- Asia -- Japan --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс