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Establishing the production chronology of the iconic Japanese woodblock print ‘Red Fuji’ [PDF]

Arts et Sciences, 2021
First printed in 1831, ‘Red Fuji' by Hokusai is one the most iconic Japanese woodblock prints and thousands of impressions were printed from its original set of woodblocks, often in different colour schemes and using different printing effects for different editions. The aim of our research was to systematically study these variations and determine the
Capucine Korenberg, Michele Derrick, Lucía Pereira Pardo, Ryoko Matsuba   +3 more
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From Materials to Technique: A Complete Non-Invasive Investigation of a Group of Six Ukiyo-E Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Oriental Art Museum E. Chiossone (Genoa, Italy)

Sensors, 2022
In the present work, a complete non-invasive scientific investigation of six Utagawa Kunisada’s woodblock prints (nishiki-e) belonging to the Oriental Art Museum “E. Chiossone” (Genoa, Italy), was performed in situ.
Marco Gargano, Margherita Longoni, Valeria Pesce, Maria Chiara Palandri, Aurora Canepari, Nicola Ludwig, Silvia Bruni   +6 more
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Брюсов и Хокусай: Заметка об одном эротическом образе [Bryusov and Hokusai: A Note on One Erotic Image]

Slavica Revalensia, 2022
This article concerns the likely source of an erotic image from Valery Bryusov’s hoax poem collection Stikhi Nelli (Nelli’s Poems). It shows that the image of an octopus copulating with a woman in the culmination of the poem “Nochnoi ropot” (“Night ...
Pavel Uspensky
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Xiyu wenjian lu by Qishiyi: Materials on the History of Central Asian Peoples in Mid-to-Late 18th Century Revisited

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article examines the Chinese written source Xiyu wenjian lu 西域闻见录 (‘Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Western Regions’) by the Manchu official Qishiyi (Chunyuan) and its data on the history and ethnography of Central Asian peoples
Natalya E. Karimova, Temur E. Tulibayev
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Beyond the connoisseurship approach: creating a chronology in Hokusai prints using non-invasive techniques and multivariate data analysis

Heritage Science, 2020
This study combines scientific and connoisseurship approaches to establish a production chronology of 141 woodblock prints from Katsushika Hokusai’s series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji belonging to different cultural institutions in Europe and the ...
Marc Vermeulen, Lucia Burgio, Nathalie Vandeperre, Elyse Driscoll, Madeleine Viljoen, Janie Woo, Marco Leona   +6 more
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Western medicine and Japanese Kampo medicine are in a complementary relationship — Stillness and movement are beautifully harmonized in Japanese Kampo medicine

Traditional &Kampo Medicine, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 97-102, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Objective This review is a general outline to have a proper understanding of Japanese Kampo medicine from my point of view. Background What is the basis of medical care? The answer is how to capture the signals emitted by the living body. In western medicine, diagnosis with a disease name is required for medical therapy to acquire a medical ...
Koichiro Tatsumi
wiley   +1 more source

Quantitative history studies on China: State capacity, institutions, culture and human capital from prehistoric times to the present

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 128-144, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Volumes of historical archives in China have been digitised, from which various datasets have been constructed for scholarly inquiry. Furthermore, the excavation of thousands of archaeological sites provided detailed data about prehistoric development across China's landmass.
Zhiwu Chen, Chicheng Ma
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Yoshio Gonnosuke and His Comparative Dutch‐Japanese Syntax: Glimpses at the Unpublished Second Part of Siebold's “Epitome Linguae Japonicae”**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2023., 2023
Abstract After outlining the life and works of interpreter Yoshio Gonnosuke, this paper introduces the manuscript witnesses of his hitherto unstudied comparative Dutch–Japanese syntax written in the mid‐1820s, which was modelled on Pieter Weiland's Nederduitsche spraakkunst (1805).
Sven Osterkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Inspired by surimono: Integrating photography and poetry to bring plants into focus

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 136-142, March 2022., 2022
Plants are our sources of oxygen, food, medicines, clothing, building materials, fuels. They are part of our history, our trade, our imaginations. Here we investigate the potential for integration of photographs and poetry to bring plants to life and let them tell their stories, inspired by the ancient Japanese woodprint artform, surimono.
Robert Coe, Nicholas M. Lee, Anne Osbourn   +2 more
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The Aura of the Local in Chinese Anthropology: Grammars, Media and Institutions of Attention Management

Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 69-82, March 2022., 2022
Abstract Since the late Qing dynasty, Chinese scholars have confronted the challenges of indigenisation: what are the limits of (Western) universalism, and how can social science, history, and anthropology become ‘Chinese’? This article deals with a series of Chinese ‘native anthropologies’, from Republican‐era outlines of ethnology and anthropology ...
Hans Steinmüller
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