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| Felice Beato's Japan: People, An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"These photos of men and women from different walks of life catered to foreign curiosity about the 'exotic' Japanese. Most were taken in [Felice] Beato's studio in Yokohama." All images with captions transcribed verbatim from the ca. 1869 album. With an in-depth essay by Alona C. Wilson.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/beato_people/index.html | |
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| Felice Beato's Japan: Places, An Album by the Pioneer Foreign Photographer in Yokohama |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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A 50-image album of images by photographer Felice Beato (ca. 1833-1908) that "features scenes along the routes that foreign sightseers travelled in the opening years of the Meiji period." All images with captions transcribed verbatim from the ca. 1869 album. With an in-depth essay by Allen Hockley, professor of art history at Dartmouth College.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/beato_places/index.html | |
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| Fire Over Earth: Ceramics from the Collection of the Asia Society |
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| Asia Society
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Explores the interrelationships between the ceramic traditions of China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia in terms of techniques, styles and the roles played by ceramics in different contexts. Features seven objects with accompanying text and a glossary.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/ceramics/ | |
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| The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance |
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| Library of Congress
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition showcasing the Library's holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th century. Images organized into the following categories: 1) Early Masters (1600-1740); 2) Major Genres: Beauties, Actors, and Landscapes; 3) Images and Literary Sources; 4) Realia and Reportage; 5) Japan and the West: Artistic Cross-Fertilization; 6) Beyond Ukiyo-e: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Prints. The EXHIBITION OVERVIEW provides historical background about ukiyo-e.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/ | |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park) |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park)
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In Chicago's Jackson Park, our future is growing from the past. The new Garden of the Phoenix symbolizes Japan and the U.S.'s 160-year story.
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| Getting Started with Zazen (Seated Meditation) |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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In Zen Buddhism, zazen (pronounced: zah-zen) is a sitting meditation. Zazen is not focusing on a specific object or thought. Instead, it is the liberating of one’s mind of all thought into a state of emptiness (a complete emptiness that is also complete fullness) from which the practitioner hopes to experience spontaneous awakening to the inner self (enlightenment). Download Includes a glossary.
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| Globetrotter's Japan: People, Foreigners on the Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"One of the most lavishly illustrated publications of Japan at the end of the 19th century was Captain Frank Brinkley’s 10-volume Japan. This unit highlights the spectrum of native people and activities depicted in this famous publication." With an in-depth essay by Allen Hockley, professor of art history at Dartmouth College.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/gt_japan_people/index.html | |
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