The culture of copying in Japan : critical and historical perspectives / edited by Rupert Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Rupert A.

Series:

Japan anthropology workshop series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization--Foreign influences.

Japan.

Civilization.

Material culture--Japan.

Material culture.

Technological innovations--Japan.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Body to body transmission : the copying tradition of Kagura / Irit Averbuch

A spectrum of copies : ritual puppetry in Japan / Jane Marie Law

Copying in Japanese magazines : unashamed copiers / Keiko Clarence-Smith

The originality of the 'copy' : mimesis and subversion in Hanegawa Tôei's Chôsenjin Ukie

Copy to convert : Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan / Alexandra Curvelo

Back to the fundamentals : 'reproducing Rikyû and Chôjirô in Japanese tea culture / Morgan Pitelka

An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian and early Kamakura Japan / Rein Raud

Chinese calligraphic models in Heian Japan : copying practices and stylistic transmission / John T. Carpenter

Beyond mimesis : Japanese architectural models at the Vienna Exhibition and 1910 Japan British Exhibition / William H. Coaldrake

Copying Kyoto : the legitimacy of imitation in Kyoto's townscape debate / Christoph Brumann

Copying cars : forgotten licensing agreements / Chris Madeley

Hungry visions : the material life of Japanese food samples / Rupert Cox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041530752X

0203609778

9780415307529

9780203609774

OCLC:

85830660