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Japanese Popular Prints: From Votive Slips to Playing Cards [PDF]

, 2006
The rationale for this book was to expose to a western audience artefacts made using woodblock which are largely unknown outside Japan. The western definition and knowledge of Japanese woodblock is fairly narrowly focused on ukiyo-e and knowledge of ...
Salter, Rebecca
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SOAS Library: Chinese art and archaeology collection [PDF]

, 2014
Chinese art has always been well-represented within SOAS Library. This article provides an overview of the Chinese art and archaeology collection, highlighting materials that make it unique, from rare books to literati paintings and woodblock prints.
Wood, Jiyeon
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From Valverde to Kulmus: Tracing the Western origins of Kaitai Shinsho's frontispiece design in early modern Japanese medicine

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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Yoshitoshi Tsuikoka’s New Forms of Thirty Six-Ghosts—Visual Tradition in Art as a Cultural Critique on Japan’s Modernization [PDF]

, 2014
Yoshitoshi Tsukioka’s traditional woodblock prints in the series New Forms of Thirty Six-Ghosts use yōkai, supernatural spirits, as a political critique about the loss of the Japanese tradition due to the Meiji State’s homogenizing modern ideology, which
Duggan, Kate
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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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Variations in Hiroshige’s Print “The Plum Garden at Kameido”

Heritage
This work examines variations in Utagawa Hiroshige’s “The Plum Garden at Kameido” by studying 82 surviving impressions of the print. Through comparative analysis, differences were observed across printings, driven by changes in woodblocks, block wear ...
Capucine Korenberg
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The Twentieth Anniversary of the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology – past achievements and future plans [PDF]

, 2015
“Manggha jest obecnie głównym ośrodkiem zarówno w Polsce, jak i w całej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, w którym można obcować z Japonią i jej kulturą”. Tę zaszczytną opinię wyraził Makoto Yamanaka – ambasador Japonii w Polsce, na łamach specjalnego wydania
Laskowska-Smoczyńska, Wioletta
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Objects and ideas : Japan and Europe in the nineteenth century [PDF]

, 2017
Contacts between nations and countries have always contributed to mutual understanding between peoples and their cultures and customs. It is true of contacts between Japan and the Western world.
Sosnowski, Leszek
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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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To Hell with Devotion: Buddhism in Senjafuda

Arts
This article concerns nōsatsu, also known in Japanese as senjafuda and generally known as “votive slips” in English. Nōsatsu emerged in the 18th century out of popular practices related to pilgrimage in the city of Edo.
Glynne Walley
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