The Diffusion of Japanese Arts and Crafts during the Post-Japonism Period: A Comparative Study on the Situation in Japan, France and Vietnam

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K00129
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01050:Aesthetics and art studies-related
• Research Institution: Shirayuri University (2021-2023); Kagoshima University (2020)
• Principal Investigator: Nimura Junko 白百合女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20782452)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: ポストジャポニスム / インドシナ美術学校 / 関口俊吾 / 仏印 / 従軍画家 / グエン・ヴァン・ト / ハノイ職業学校 / 植民地と工藝

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examines “Japonisme” created in France, not by studying the bilateral traffic between the two countries of Japan and France, but by using a three-point approach including Vietnam. Specifically, the study identified the proliferation of Japanese aesthetics and art by France, its acceptance and development by Vietnam, and Japan's response to this through documents.The French art administration in Indochina tried to educate the arts in the “Japanese style” by inviting teachers from Japan and using Japanese decorative arts as a model in the art and craft schools and vocational schools in France.As for lacquerware, maki-e, a lacquerware technique not previously found in Vietnam, can be confirmed. As for painting, the composition, subject matter, and techniques of ukiyoe were accepted and developed.

Free Research Field

東アジア美術史、比較芸術論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで、「ジャポニスム」は「19世紀後半に西洋で流行した日本趣味」と定義されており、場所も時代も限定されて使用されることが多かった。本研究は、こうした枠（時代と空間）を広げ、日本趣味と日本装飾の伝播を「ポストジャポニスム」としてとらえようとするものである。また、これまでほとんど研究が進んでいなかった仏印進駐時代の美術交渉の解明に寄与したと考える。当研究の成果は、ジャポニスムを新たに位置づけなおす契機を与え、また、東アジアにおける「美術」の生成の解明に寄与するものである。