Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan: The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods

by Hiroyuki Suzuki

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.

Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606067427
• ISBN13: 9781606067420
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.2"