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The Lens Within the Heart

The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
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It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that the country was isolated form the influence of the outside, and in particular, the western world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirros, had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech offers interpretations of 18th century thought through popular objects, and makes propositions which many considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996. The conclusions reached here have yet to be substantially challenged. Curzon is pleased to announce a revised edition of this important work, with a new preface by the author. Previously only available in hardback.

Author Biography:

Timon Screech was trained at Oxford, Harvard and Gakushuin and is currently Reader in the History of Japanese Art at SOAS, University of London, and Senior Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. He is the author of over half a dozen books in Japanese and English on the culture of the Edo period, including Sex and the Floating World (1999) and The Shogun's Painted Culture (2000).
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March 7th, 2002
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
330
ISBN-13
9780700715732
Product ID
12148475

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