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Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868) |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of artistic production in Japan during the Edo or Tokugawa period. With 9 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/edop/hd_edop.htm | |
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Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A lengthy discussion of the social developments in the Edo period that gave rise to literary and visual arts such as kabuki theater and ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints. With 5 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/plea/hd_plea.htm | |
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Asia Rising: Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"Imperial Japan’s 1904–05 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be widely illustrated in postcards, the Japanese view of the conflict is presented in images from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." See the ESSAY section for an in-depth, illustrated reading of the images from the historical record. See the VISUAL NARRATIVES section for a shorthand view of the unit's primary themes and images. A CURRICULUM section for teachers and students can be found under the "Asia Rising" menu at the top of the page.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/index.html | |
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