Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering.

• Superior document: Japanese Visual Culture
• VerfasserIn: Kameda-Madar, Kazuko,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Japanese Visual Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)

This book examines the cultural networks that connected people during the Edo period (1603-1868) by surveying a wide range of visual representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering produced mostly in Japan. The Orchid Pavilion Gathering is one of the most important painting themes in the cultural history of East Asia, yet there has hitherto been no monograph focused on this subject in the English language. This project introduces the many important images representing and related to the Gathering, some of which have never before been published.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: THE ORCHID PAVILION GATHERING AND CULTURAL NETWORKS IN THE EDO PERIOD -- 1 MYTH AND CANON FORMATION OF ORCHID PAVILION IMAGERY IN CHINA -- The Orchid Pavilion Pedigree -- Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty -- Tang Taizong and the Orchid Pavilion as Calligraphy -- Orchid Pavilion Illustrations in the Song Dynasty -- An Orchid Pavilion Painting Described by Song Lian -- Engraving and Canonizing the Orchid Pavilion Images in the Ming Dynasty -- 2 ORCHID PAVILION IMAGERY AS AESTHETIC AUTHORITY: THE KYO-KANO WORKSHOP AND THEIR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL NETWORK -- The Orchid Pavilion Paintings by Kano Sansetsu -- Kano Sansetsu: Eccentricity Reconsidered -- A Survival Strategy in the Kyō-Kano Texts -- The Aristocratic Patronage Behind the Orchid Pavilion Paintings -- Examining an Orchid Pavilion Screen by Kano Sansetsu -- The Landscape of the Orchid Pavilion Screen -- Architectural Elements in the Orchid Pavilion Screen -- Representation of Human Figures -- The Social and Cultural Signifi cance of the Tea Ceremony -- Comparing the Orchid Pavilion Screen by Kano Einō -- The Orchid Pavilion by the Edo-Kano Painters -- Conclusion -- 3 THE ORCHID PAVILION AS AN ALTERNATIVE "CLASSICAL" THEME: PERFORMING LITERATI IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION -- Chinese Wenren/ Japanese Bunjin -- Sources for the Literati Orchid Pavilion Images in the East Asian Context -- Ming and Qing Dynasty Chinese Models -- Joseon Dynasty Korean Models -- Conceptualizing a New Taste for Orchid Pavilion Imagery -- Ike Taiga's Social Environment -- Taiga's Votive Panel and Its Draft -- Iconography of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering -- Evolution of the Orchid Pavilion Folding Screens by Taiga -- Possible Trajectories of Iconographical Combinations.

Comparing an Orchid Pavilion Screen by Yosa Buson -- 4 COPYING AND THEORY IN LITERATI PAINTING: ORCHID PAVILION IMAGERY BY NAKAYAMA KOYO AND NAKABAYASHI CHIKUTO -- Nakayama Kōyō's Painting Theory -- Koyō's Orchid Pavilion Gathering -- Kōyō's Social Environment -- Nakabayashi Chikutō's Painting Theory -- Chikutō's Orchid Pavilion Gathering -- Chikutō's Social Environment -- Conclusion -- 5 ILLUSIONISTIC SPACE IN ORCHID PAVILION IMAGES: A RECONFIGURED CANON BY MARUYAMA OKYO AND HIS FOLLOWERS -- Continuum of the Actual Space and the Illusionary Pictorial Space -- Inspiration from the Chinese and Japanese Visual Traditions -- Ōkyo's Realism and the Spread of Encyclopedia -- Lively Sketches in the Ōkyo's Orchid Pavilion Screen -- Bridging the Maruyama and the Literati Tradition -- The Orchid Pavilion for the Poverty Relief Project -- The Shijō School Variations of Aesthetic Arrangement -- Various Orchid Pavilion Paintings in Kyoto After Ōkyo -- Conclusion -- 6 ORCHID PAVILION IMAGERY AFTER IKE TAIGA: THE SINOPHILE SALONS OF THE OSAKA INTELLIGENTSIA -- Transmitting the Orchid Pavilion Tradition from Kyoto to Osaka -- Performing the Role of the Chinese Literati -- Creativities Explored by the Eccentric Painters in Osaka -- Naturalistic Paintings Absorbing the Literati Elements -- 7 THE NATIVIZATION OF ORCHID PAVILION IMAGERY: FUZOKUGA AND UKIYO-E ADAPTATIONS -- Fūzokuga Adaptations of Kyokusuien Imagery -- Nativization of the Orchid Pavilion through Waka Poetry -- The Kyokusuien as a Courtly Ritual: Tsukioka Settei -- Yamato-e Revival and the Kokugaku Ideology -- Edo Rinpa Variation of the Kyokusuien Imagery -- The Kyokusuien in the Floating World -- Shunman's Intellectual Environment -- The Contemporaneity of Classical Themes -- Conclusion -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- List of Characters -- Bibliography -- Index.