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Frog in the well [electronic resource] : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 / Donald Keene.

By: Keene, Donald.
Contributor(s): Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841 | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Asia perspectives: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2006Description: 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841 | Painters -- Japan -- Biography | Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 759.952 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year.
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759.952 B (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-276) and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.