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ISBN 10:9004229167
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Author:Ayako Hott Lister ,Ian Nish
This volume, intended to complement Hotta-Lister’s original 1999 study, marks the centenary of London’s 1910 great Japan-British Exhibition, which was held at White City, Shepherd’s Bush, and attracted over eight million visitors during its six-month stay. While the initiative came from Britain, the Japanese Government was the major source of funding for the Japanese side of the Exhibition. Using the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as its springboard, Japan – at the time a new colonial power – hoped to bring about a greater understanding of its cultures and traditions and thereby stimulate trade and commerce between the two countries.
In the event, the Japanese press, unlike the British press, took umbrage at what they considered the trivialization of Japanese culture, thus in part frustrating the positive cultural, commercial and political outcomes that were hoped for. Eighteen months later, Emperor Meiji died and the Great War of 1914-18 followed soon after, thereby relegating the exhibition – its origins, composition, relevance and impact – to oblivion until recent times. The papers in this volume, therefore, drawn from four ‘centenary conferences’ held in London and Tokyo, offer an important spotlight on the exhibition’s legacy – specifically in the contexts of commerce and culture.
The contents include the following themes: The Exhibition and domestic conditions in Britain and Japan; the Exhibition and Japan’s economic background; selling the ‘backward’ Japanese economy; imperialism and the Exhibition; the Japanese media and the Exhibition; the arts of Britain and Japan; Ainu in London; Japanese fine art; the human legacy; Japanese gardens.
This book has wide inter-disciplinary relevance for students in modern East Asian Studies, but especially in the context of colonial and economic history, inter-cultural exchange and Anglo-Japanese relations.
Table of contents:
Conditions in Japan and Britain at the Time of the Exhibition
Author: Chūshichi Tsuzuki
Overview: Organization, Aims and Results of the Exhibition
Author: Hugh Cortazzi
Japan and International Exhibitions, 1862–1910
Author: Angus Lockyer
Rural Manufacturing and Agricultural Production: Selling the ‘Backward’ Japanese Economy
Author: Janet Hunter
On the Commercial Periphery of the Japan-British Exhibition, 1910
Author: Ian Nish
Anglo-Japanese Imperialism and International Exhibitions in the Age of the ‘New Imperialism’
Author: Ayako Hotta-Lister
The Exhibition and the Media in the Springtime of Propaganda
Author: Peter O’Connor
Ainu in London, 1910: Power, Representation and Practice of the Ainu Village
Author: Kimio Miyatake
1910 Japan-British Exhibition and the Art of Britain and Japan
Author: Toshio Watanabe
Treasures of the Nation: Japanese Paintings in the Fine Arts Palace
Author: Meri Arichi
Japanese Fine Art in the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition
Author: Michiko Hayashi
The Japanese Gardens: Stars of the Show
Author: Jill Raggett
The Human Legacy of the Japan-British Exhibition
Author: Keiko Itoh
Closing Reflections
Authors: Ayako Hotta-Lister and Ian Nish
Extracts from Count Mutsu Hirokichi’s Exhibition Diary
Author: Ayako Hotta-Lister
The Times 1910 Japan Supplement
Authors: Hugh Cortazzi, Ayako Hotta-Lister, and Ian Nish
The Japan Society’s Exhibits
Author: Hugh Cortazzi
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