The Western Image of Japanese Art in the Late Edo Period

In: Modern Asian studies, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 667-684

Abstract

These are two very different assessments of Japanese art and artists both published in London during the 1860s. We may argue that both comments are ill-conceived and prejudiced; yet both in their own way are characteristic Western reactions of the time. In this paper I should like to explore the Western image of Japanese art during the period from 1853 to 1867.