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Fireflies in Art: Emphasis on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Edo, Meiji, and Taishō Periods
Insects, 2022 Examining how insects are represented in artwork can provide insight into people’s perceptions and attitudes towards arthropods, as well as document human–insect interactions and how they change through time. Fireflies are well-known bioluminescent beetles (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) of great cultural significance, especially in Japan.
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 145-155, July 2025.ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 415-419, April 2025.Abstract This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original design,
Chuan‐Hang Yu, Toshihide Sato
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Does culture matter in corporate cash holdings?
International Review of Finance, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This paper identifies culture as an important factor affecting corporate cash holdings by using China and its national culture, Confucianism, as the setting. We find that firms located in regions with stronger Confucian culture hold persistently higher levels of cash. We employ an instrumental variable to draw causal inference.
Yongning Deng, Sipeng Zeng
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Original Japanese woodblock print
, 1963 Framed and matted original Japanese woodblock print signed by the artist, Shiko Munakata, presented to John Glenn during the 1963 NASA goodwill tour of Japan.Physical Dimensions: 21 inches high by 16 inches wide.Credit: John Glenn Archives, The Ohio ...
Munakata, Shiko
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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Historical subjects represented in the Feliks Jasieński collection of Japanese woodblock-prints
Art of the Orient, 2013 Jasienski started to buy Japanese woodblock-prints, lacquerware, bronzes and other kind of art pieces. This interest became a passion which he deepened by studying Japanese culture. He was interested in its history, aesthetics, and symbolism. Thanks to his knowledge and the sound advice of experts, Jasienski created a collection of high quality art ...
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eCAM: Proteomics, BioArt and Integrative Medicine?
, 2010 Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 1-2, 2010.
Edwin L. Cooper
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Why is the Geisha Hitting the Westerner? The Japanese Woodblock Print Genre of awate-e [PDF]
Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 2014 This paper attempts to bring to light a little-known genre of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), the awate-e (hysteria pictures). This genre of polychrome ukiyo-e (nishiki-e) belongs among caricatures because it treats current events in a satirical way.
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Medical, Anatomical, and Visual Transformations in the Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Edo and Meiji Periods (1603 - 1912) [PDF]
, 2019 “Medical, Anatomical, and Visual Transformations in the Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Edo and Meiji Periods” first presents one of Japan’s lesser known genres of woodblock print.
Bennett, Victoria
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