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Author Keene, Donald.

Title Frog in the well [electronic resource] : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 / Donald Keene.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 289 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series Asia perspectives
Asia perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-276) and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
Painters -- Japan -- Biography.
Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0231138261 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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