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"A true Japanese taste": Construction of knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"A true Japanese taste": Construction of knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900./
Author:	Hirayama, Hina.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-11, Section: A, page: 4191.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-11A.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9911904
ISBN:	9780599101425

"A true Japanese taste": Construction of knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900.
Hirayama, Hina.

"A true Japanese taste": Construction of knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900. - 328 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-11, Section: A, page: 4191.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 1999.

This dissertation explores diverse perceptions about Japan and its art that emerged in Boston between 1880 and 1900, and the interactions among such perceptions in Boston's specific cultural milieu. After 1870 Boston sent many specialists to newly opened Japan, while the general public enthusiastically embraced exotic Japanese goods and eagerly sought information about the country. During the period, lively discussions about what constituted "a true Japanese taste" ensued, engaging many levels of Boston's population. As an examination of Orientalism, this study challenges the homogeneous and monolithic model constructed by Edward Said and attempts to investigate in specific terms the multiplicity of perceptions about Japan that existed in a limited geographical region and time period, using material culture as one focus. The sources for this study include the personal papers, published records, contemporary newspaper accounts, and visual culture of Japan-related individuals and events. Chapters examine, first, the history of knowledge about Japan in Boston before the 1876 Centennial; second, Edward Sylvester Morse (1838--1925), a scientist whose public lectures on Japan in Boston in the early 1880s and whose pottery collection generated lively public debate; third, the Japanese display at the 1883--1884 Boston Foreign Exhibition and its reception; and fourth, Bunkio Matsuki (1867--1940), a Japanese native who transformed himself after 1890 from a vendor of Japanese trinkets into a fine arts dealer of Japanese antiques in Boston.

ISBN: 9780599101425Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122720
American studies.

"A true Japanese taste": Construction of knowledge about Japan in Boston, 1880-1900.
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