• DOI:10.1017/S0026749X00016371
• Corpus ID: 145105044

The Western Image of Japanese Art in the Late Edo Period

@article{Watanabe1984TheWI,
  title={The Western Image of Japanese Art in the Late Edo Period},
  author={Toshio Watanabe},
  journal={Modern Asian Studies},
  year={1984},
  volume={18},
  pages={667 - 684}
}

• Toshio Watanabe
• Published 1 October 1984
• Art
• Modern Asian Studies

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.