Visualisation of Japanese Nature in Josiah Conder’s Works
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Theme I : Nature And Design
Since Japan had opened her ports to the world, the country aggressively assembled Westerner to introduce systems, techniques, and cultures from the West, and those who came Japan studies the unknown country in the Far East and published books. A British architect Josiah Conder (1852-1920) is one of them who tried to reveal Japanese culture. He wrote books about Japanese flowers and flower arrangement in The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement (1891) and The Floral Art of Japan (1899). In addition, he published Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893) with its companion book Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893). This paper is going to focus illustrations and photographs in those books to illuminate Conder’s attempt to discuss Japanese beauty with Western point of view and Japanese artistic sense. His first book about flowers in Japan The Flowers of Japan and The Art of Floral Arrangement adopted Japanese style while its content was written in Western scientific point of view that based on a paper for Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889. The cover of the book was drawn by a popular Japanese woodcut painter and has some coloured Japanese woodcuts by native artists. In Contrast to the first book, Landscape Gardening in Japan contains Western style expressions. He cited pictures by a Japanese Western-style painter instead of woodcuts. He also adopted photographs in Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan as he explains them “the most scientific means”. However, these Western style expressions could not be seen in his third book though the contents become more scientific. These shifts of illustrations reflects Conder’s attempt to illuminate possibility of Japanese art and ‘universally accepted art truths’.
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- The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory
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The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory 3 62-69, 2020-03
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詳細情報 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390577277031239168
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- DOI
- 10.18910/90919
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- ISSN
- 21897166
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- HANDLE
- 11094/90919
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- 本文言語コード
- en
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- journal article
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- JaLC
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