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The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its dynamic impact on global culture, showing through several twentieth-century masterpieces the generative and regenerative power of Japanese arts.Choosing a representative work from each of four modern genres-painting, film, photography, and animation-Lucken portrays the range of strategies that Japanese artists use to re-present contemporary influences. He examines Kishida Ryusei's portraits of Reiko (1914-1929), Kurosawa Akira's Ikiru (1952), Araki Nobuyoshi's photographic novel Sentimental Journey-Winter (1991), and Miyazaki Hayao's popular anime film Spirited Away (2001), revealing the sophisticated patterns of mimesis that are unique but not exclusive to modern Japanese art. In doing so, Lucken identifies the tensions that drive the Japanese imagination, which are much richer than a simple opposition between progress and tradition, and their reflection of human culture's universal encounter with change. This global perspective explains why, despite its non-Western origins, Japanese art has earned such a vast following.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Imitation in art. --- Art --- Pictures --- Appropriation (Art) --- Mimesis in art --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- Reproduction --- Copying --- Kishida, Ryūsei, --- Kurosawa, Akira, --- Araki, Nobuyoshi, --- Miyazaki, Hayao, --- 宮崎駿, --- 荒木経惟, --- 荒木經惟, --- 荒木経帷, --- Heize, Ming, --- Kurosava, Akira, --- Kurōcāvā, Akirā, --- Kūrūsāvā, Ākīrā, --- کوروساوا، آکيرا, --- 黑沢明 --- 黑澤明, --- 黒沢明, --- 黒澤明, --- Ryūsei, Kishida, --- 岸田劉生, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 宮崎, 駿 --- Akira, Kurosawa --- Heize, Ming --- Kurosava, Akira --- Kurōcāvā, Akirā --- Kūrūsāvā, Ākīrā