Subject Guides: Art: Japanese art history

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Most of these titles were published after 2000, apart from a few earlier titles. Hover cursor over a title to see date published and call number.

Selected books on Japanese art history & aesthetics

A history of Japanese art : style in Japanese art : a comparative perspective / Hidemichi Tanaka ; translated from Japanese by Joe Earle
A history of modern Japanese aesthetics / translated and edited by Michael F. Marra
Aesthetic strategies of the floating world : mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū in early modern Japanese popular culture / by Alfred Haft
Art, life, and nature in Japan / [Masaharu Anesaki]
Artist's touch, the craftsman's hand : three centuries of Japanese prints from the Portland Art Museum / Maribeth Graybill [et al.]
Artless art : the Zen aesthetic of Shiga Naoya : a critical study with selected translations / Roy Starrs
Capitalscapes : folding screens and political imagination in late medieval Kyoto / Matthew Philip McKelway
Chikubushima : deploying the sacred arts in Momoyama Japan / Andrew M. Watsky
Colors of Japan / Sadao Hibi [et al.]
Critical perspectives on classicism in Japanese painting, 1600-1700 / edited by Elizabeth Lillehoj
Culture of copying in Japan : critical and historical perspectives / edited by Rupert Cox
Dawn of the floating world, 1650-1765 : early ukiyo-e treasures from the museum of fine arts, Boston / Timothy Clark ... [et al.]
Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860 / edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.]
Designing nature : the Rinpa aesthetic in Japanese art / John T. Carpenter
Dreams & diversions : essays on Japanese woodblock prints from the San Diego Museum of Art / Andreas Marks & Sonya Rhie Quintanilla (eds.)
Genji's world in Japanese woodblock prints : from the Paulette and Jack Lantz collection / Andreas Marks [et al.]
Golden journey : Japanese art from Australian collections / James Bennett, Amy Reigle Newland
Hokusai and his age : ukiyo-e painting, printmaking and book illustration in late Edo Japan / edited by John T. Carpenter
Icons and iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism : Kukai and Dogen on the art of enlightenment / Pamela D. Winfield
Japan and the culture of the four seasons : nature, literature, and the arts / Haruo Shirane
Japan's golden age : Momoyama / [editors] Money L. Hickman ... [et al.]
Japanese art / Joan Stanley-Baker
Japanese art and design / Joe Earle [et al.]
Japanese arts and self-cultivation / Robert E. Carter
Japanese images of nature : cultural perspectives / edited by Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland
Japanese perceptions of nature and natural order / edited by K. Henshall and D. Bing
Kazari : decoration and display in Japan, 15th-19th centuries / Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere [et al.]
Kunisada's Tōkaidō : riddles in Japanese woodblock prints / Andreas Marks
Lineage of eccentrics : Matabei to Kuniyoshi / Nobuo Tsuji ; translated by Aaron M. Rio
Portraits of Chōgen : the transformation of Buddhist art in early medieval Japan / by John M. Rosenfield
Practices of painting in Japan, 1475-1500 / Quitman E. Phillips
Reading surimono : the interplay of text and image in Japanese prints : with a catalogue of the Marino Lusy collection / edited by John T. Carpenter
Reflections on Japanese taste : the structure of iki / by Kuki Shūzō ; translated by John Clark
Shunga : sex and pleasure in Japanese art / Timothy Clark
Sparse shadows, flying pearls : a Japanese screen revealed / [curator Sarah Tiffin]
Storytelling in Japanese art / Masako Watanabe
Theory of beauty in the classical aesthetics of Japan / Toshihiko and Toyo Izutsu
Traces of China: the Japanese transformation of Chinese themes and techniques / edited by Andreas Marks ; with contributions by Henk Herwig ... [et al.]
Tractate on Japanese aesthetics / Donald Richie
Turning point : Oribe and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan / edited by Miyeko Murase ; with contributions by Mutsuko Amemiya ... [et al.]
Visual genesis of Japanese national identity : Hokusai's Hyakunin isshu / Ewa Machotka
Zen arts : an anthropological study of the culture of aesthetic form in Japan / Rupert A. Cox

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Art: Japanese art history

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Selected books on Japanese art history & aesthetics

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