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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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| 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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| 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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| Globetrotter's Japan: Places, Foreigners on the Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"View hand-colored photographs of the sights on a typical tour of late-19th-century Japan, reproduced here from a lush 10-volume set by Captain Frank Brinkley. Comments appear from travel books by 'globetrotter' tourists of the time." 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_places/index.html | |
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| Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections |
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| Asia Society
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition of Japanese folding screens. Features 14 screens with descriptive text. Several of these illustrate Japanese literary classics such as the “Chronicle of the Great Peace” (Taiheiki); the Tale of the Heike; the Tales of Ise; and the Tale of Genji.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/index.html | |
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| The Hokusai Museum |
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| The Hokusai Museum
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Website created by the Hokusai Museum Foundation for the Third International Hokusai Conference held in Obuse in 1998. Includes selected works from the museum's collection, a very detailed timeline outlining key events and artworks from the life of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), and a history of the Hokusai Museum in Obuse.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.book-navi.com/hokusai/hokusai-e.html | |
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| Hokusai: Mad About Painting |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Animated examination of works by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). This excellent interactive website features an introduction to Hokusai's life, plus an examination of his work, organized into the following categories: COLOR (Hokusai's innovative use of color); BRUSH & BLOCK (the range of Hokusai's creativity, and comparisons of painting and printing techniques); COMPOSITION; and SUBJECT. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/hokusai/launch.htm | |
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