Challenging Past And Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century ... - Google Books

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The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during thecourse of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by apolitical event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both thepreceding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji…