Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841

Donald Keene

July, 2006
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13826-0
$26.50 / £15.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Dutch Studies in Japan Before 1793

2. Japan in 1793: Kazan's Early Years

3. Genre Paintings and Early Portraits

4. Travels and Career

5. The Early 1830s

6. Foreign Influence and Major Portraits

7. The Meeting of East and West

8. Danger from Overseas

9. The Road to Prison

10. The Trial

11. Kazan the Painter

12. The Last Year

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Art History
• Asian History
• East Asian Studies

Series

• Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

About the Author

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World and the definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.

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