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Frog in the well : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 / Donald Keene.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keene, Donald.
- Series:
- Asia perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841.
- Watanabe, Kazan.
- Painters--Japan--Biography.
- Painters.
- Japan.
- Japan--Intellectual life--1600-1868.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793
- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years
- Genre paintings and early portraits
- Travels and career
- The early 1830s
- Foreign influence and major portraits
- The meeting of East and West
- Danger from overseas
- The road to prison
- The trial
- Kazan the painter
- The last year.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231138261
- OCLC:
- 62381344
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