The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives

by COX; RUPERT

• ISBN13: 9780415307529
• ISBN10: 041530752X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

Table of Contents

Original encounters	p. 19
Body-to-body transmission: the copying tradition of Kagura	p. 21
A spectrum of copies: ritual puppetry in Japan	p. 40
Copying in Japanese magazines: unashamed copiers	p. 51
Arts of citation	p. 69
The originality of the 'copy' mimesis and subversion in Hanegawa Toei's Chosenjin Ukie	p. 71
Copy to convert: Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan	p. 111
Back to the fundamentals: 'reproducing' Rikyu and Chojiro in Japanese tea culture	p. 128
An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian, early Kamakura Japan	p. 143
Chinese calligraphic models in Heian Japan: copying practices and stylistic transmission	p. 156
Modern exchanges	p. 197
Beyond mimesis: Japanese architectural models at the Vienna Exhibition and 1910 Japan British Exhibition	p. 199
Copying Kyoto: the legitimacy of imitation in Kyoto's townscape debate	p. 213
Copying cars: forgotten licensing agreements	p. 239
Hungry visions: the material life of Japanese food samples	p. 257
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