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9. The Image of the Black in Japanese Art: From the Beginnings to 1850
Timon Screech
Description: The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
Many cultures see, or imagine, people with skins differently pigmented from their own, and create stories and pictures of them. Yet although there are many ancient Japanese legends of various kinds of Other, and of strange people in remote parts, the image of a people who could be called...
Author
Timon Screech
PublisherHarvard University Press
Copyright© 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.325-240
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00136.015
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17841
Chapter subject tags:Other (Philosophy) in artArt, Japanese--To 1868ImperialismRace relations

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9. The Image of the Black in Japanese Art: From the Beginnings to 1850