Japanese art studies after Japonisme: the era of Georges de Tressan

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520119
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics/Art history
• Research Institution: Sagami Women's University
• Principal Investigator: MINAMI Asuka 相模女子大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (20329212)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ジャポニスム / ジャポノロジー / 日本研究 / 工芸 / 日本絵画 / 日本美術史 / 國華 / 鐔

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is an attempt to clarify the interactions between the works of Western and Japanese historians of Japanese arts during the transitional period from amateurism to Japanese studies (1880-1920). The results are given in seven papers and one book.We focused on institutions, collectors and historians, as well as on the main periodicals. We analyzed the publications written in Western languages by Japanese art historians. This investigation visualized the life and works of four art historians: Georges de Tressan, Oskar Munsterberg, Raphael Petrucci and Henri L. Joly, referencing the primary documents such as letters, notes, and photographs. The lists of bibliographies of these persons have also been drawn up.
We now understand the characteristics of the studies of yamatoe, Muromachi ink painting and ancient Chinese paintings, as well as that of sword-guards written by these four historians and others, for example: L. Binyon, H. P. Bowie, W. Cohn, Seiichi Taki, Kyusaku Akiyama.

Free Research Field

比較文学・比較文化