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In this penetrating analysis of a little-explored area of Japanese cultural history, Timon Screech reassesses the career of the chief minister Matsudaira Sadanobu, who played a key role in defining what we think of as Japanese culture today. Aware of how visual representations could support or undermine regimes, Sadanobu promoted painting to advance his own political aims and improve the shogunate's image. As an antidote to the hedonistic ukiyo-e, or floating world, tradition, which he opposed, Sadanobu supported attempts to construct a new approach to painting modern life. At the

Art, Japanese --- Art and state --- Art --- History. --- Political aspects --- Matsudaira, Sadanobu, --- Influence. --- Japan --- Civilization --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Government policy --- Rakuō Kō, --- Shirakawa, Rakuō-kō, --- Rakuō, --- 松平定信, --- Aesthetics --- Art and society --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Rakuō-kō, --- J6008.60 --- History --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa, early modern (1600-1867) --- E-books --- J6200 --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- painting and drawing --- Art, Primitive