Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets examines the transmission of painting traditions in Japan from one generatio
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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes To The Reader
An Afterword Posing As A Foreword: Some Comparative And Miscellaneous Thoughts On Talent And Training
Introduction
Chapter 1. Talent,Training, And Power: The Kano Painting Workshop In The Seventeenth Century
Chapter 2. Copying From Beginning To End?: Student Life In The Kano School
Chapter 3. In The Studio Of Painting Study: Transmission Practices Of Tani Bunchō
Chapter 4. Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Theory And Pedagogy: The Preeminence Of Shasei
Chapter 5. Okuhara Seiko: A Case Of Funpon Training I N L Ate Edo Literat I Painting
Chapter 6. Institutionalizing Talent And The Kano: Legacy At The Tokyo School Of Fine Arts, 1889–1893
Epilogue From Technique To Art
Appendix. An Examination Of Records: Painting Commissions As Determinants Of Hierarchy In The Early-Seventeenth-Century Kano House
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index