Spring 2024 Art History GU4763 section 001

Reading Images in Edo-period Books

Edo-period Illustr. Books

Call Number 20901
Day & Time
Location
W 4:10pm-6:00pm
806 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructors Matthew P McKelway
Takeshi Noguchi
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

A colloquium devoted to reading illustrated books from Edo-period Japan. Texts to be covered will include Saga-bon illustrated tales, illustrated guidebooks and gazetteers (meisho zue), painting manuals, and poetry, such as Ehon Tōshi-sen, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai. Reading and translating passages written in premodern Japanese scripts variously called hentaigana, kuzushiji, and sōsho will be the central activity of the course, but we will also consider such themes as the development of woodblock printing, the book as a format, and how the content both reflects and shapes knowledge of the subjects and themes with which they are concerned. If possible we will examine firsthand printed books in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer Gallery, and New York Public Library but will also take advantage of ample hi-res interactive resources available through each of these institutions.

Familiarity with Classical Japanese will be useful.

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 4 students (12 max) as of 9:06AM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Art History
Number GU4763
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Email instructor for permission to enroll
Section key 20241AHIS4763W001