Bibliography on Japan at International Expositions

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON JAPAN AT INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS Compiled by Jilly Traganou with help from Pat Graham after an email exchange among JAHF members, January 2006 --last revised January 30, 2006--

*call numbers refer to Columbia University library

IN WESTERN LANGUAGES Allwood, John. The Great Exhibitions. London: Cassell & Collier Macmillan, 1977. [Avery N4505 A158] Altick, Richard. The Shows of London. Belknap Press, 1978. [Butler T395.5 .G7 A45] Benedict, Burton, et al. The Anthropology of World's Fairs. London: Scolar Press, 1983. [Cited by Kornicki. Avery AA6750 Sa52 B43, Burgess TC781.B2 B47 1983, also 3 cc. in Barnard] Cawelti, John G. "America on Display: The World's Fairs of 1876, 1893, 1933." In Frederic Cople Jaher, The Age of Industrialism in America: Essays in Social Structure and Cultural Values (New York: Free Press, 1968), pp. 317-363. [Cited by Harris.] Christ, Carol. "Japan's Seven Acres," Gateway Heritage (Fall 1996): 2-15. Coaldrake, William.. "Model Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Japanese Architectural Ambassadors to the 1873 Vienna Exhibition." Orientations 35/1 (January/February 2004): 47-51. Cohen, Warren I. East Asian Art and American Culture; A Study in International Relations New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Conant, Ellen P. "American Collections of Japanese Art." In Phillip Dennis Cate, ed., Perspectives on Japonisme--The Japanese Influence on America (The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1988), pp. 63-75. Conant, Ellen. Challenging the Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Japanese Art in Nineteenth Century Japan, edited by Ellen P. Conant. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006 (February). This book includes a chapter by Ellen Conant, Japan 'Abroad' at the Chicago Exposition, 1893." Conant, Ellen P. "The French Connection: Emile Guimet's Mission to Japan, a Cultural Context for Japonisme." In Hilary Conroy et al, eds., Japan in Transition-- Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912 (Associated University Presses, 1984), pp. 113-146. Conant, Ellen P. "Principles and Pragmatism" The Yatoi in the Field of Art." In Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira Iriye, eds., Foreign Employees in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 137-170. Conant, Ellen. "Refractions of the Rising Sun: Japan's Participation at International Exhibitions 1862-1910," in Japan and Britian: An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850-1930, edited by Tomoko Sato and Toshio Watanabe. London: Lund Humphries in association with Barbican Art Gallery and the Setagaya Art Museum, 1991. Davis, Julia Finette. "International Expositions, 1851-1900." In William B. O'Neil, ed., The American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, Papers, 4:47-130 (1967). [Cited by Harris for bibliography on Philadelphia Centenniel, 1876.] Douglas, Mary, and Isherwood, Baron. The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. London: Allen Lanne, 1979. [Cited by Kornicki. Lehman GN449.6 .D68, also Barnard] Earle, Joe. Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection , London, 2002. Findling, John, ed. Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988. NY: Greenwood Press, 1990. [Butler Ref R791 H629] Finn, Dallas "Japan at the Centennial" in Nineteenth Century Magazine (Autumn 1976) pp. 33-40 Fischer, Felice. "Japan and the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition" in Phila-Nipponica: An Historic Guide to Philadelphia and Japan. Philadelphia: Japan-America Society of Greater Philadelphia, 1999. Fujitani, Takashi. "Japan's Modern National Ceremonies: A Historical Ethnography, 1868-1912." PhD diss, University of California, Berkeley, 1986. [HS has copy.] Girmond, Sibille‚"Die Rezeption Japans, Die 'Internationale Ausstellung von Arbeiten aus edelen Metallen und Legirungen-in Nurnberg 1885" (on objects exhibited in Nurnberg in 1885) in Ostasiatische Zeitschrift no. 4, autumn, 2002, pp. 16-33 (Teil I, Metallarbeiten), no. 5, spring, 2003, pp. 19-29 (Teil II, 1, Emailarbeiten), no. 6, autumn, 2003, pp. 32-48 (Teil II, 2, Emailarbeiten). Greenhalgh, Paul. Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions, and Worlds Fairs, 1851-1939. Manchester University Press, 1988. [Cited by Kornicki. Butler T395 .G745 1988g] Harris, Neil. "All the World's a Melting Pot," in Mutual Images: Essays In American- Japanese Relations. Harvard University Press, 1975, 24-54. Hosley, William. THE JAPAN IDEA, 14-46 (and Plates). Hotta-Lister, Ayako. The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: gateway to the island empire of the East;. Richmond, Surrey : Japan Library, c.1999. http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/index.html This site has digital images of the various official publications of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. http://www.lib.csufresno.edu/subjectresources/specialcollections/worldfairs/welcome.html Web site on INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS AND FAIRS, 1851-1940 http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/ This site has 1500 historic photographs of the Philadelphia Centennial, including the Japanese display. Jackson, Anna. "Imagining Japan: The Victorian Perception and Acquisition of Japanese Culture," Journal of Design History vol.5, no.4 1992, pp.245-256. Jay, Ricky. Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women. NY: Warner Books, 1986. [Burgess PN1583 .J38 1986. HS also has copy.] Kenin, Richard, intro. A Fascimile of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition 1876, New York: Paddington Press, 1974. Kreiner, Josef, ed. Bier'sche Verlagsanstalt, (2 vols.) Bonn, 2005. ISBN 3-936366-06-3, ISSN 143-0927. This is the result of the symposia held in Bonn 2003 (and later Prague 2004) and details well many Japanese collections in Europe together with details of how, and from where, many were acquired. Vol.1 has a useful (although not completely comprehensive) 'Chronological table of Japanese art & craft in Europe. Kornicki, Peter. "Provincial Exhibitions in the Early Meiji Period: Public Display and Changing Values in Nineteenth-Century Japan." Unpublished manuscript, 1991. [HS has copy.] Kornicki, P. F. "Public Displays and Changing Values, Early Meiji Exhibitions and their Precursors." Monumenta Nipponica 49/2 (summer 1994.): 167-196. Kusamitsu, Toshio. "Great Exhibitions Before 1851." History Workshop, 9 (1980), pp. 70-89. [Cited by Kornicki. Butler D1 .H57] LACMA: Japan Goes to the World's Fairs: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions in Europe and the United States 1867-1904 with contributions by Keith Wilson, Doi Kumiko, Ogawa Mikio, and Ito Yoshiaki. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2005. Lancaster, Clay. The Japanese Influence in American Architecture. New York: W.H. Rawls, 1963. [Avery AA705 L2233. HS also has copy.] Langlois, Lisa Kaye, "Exhibiting Japan: Gender and national identity at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893." Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004 Lockyer, Angus. Japan at Exhibition, 1867-1970 PhD diss. Stanford University, 2000. Luckhurst, Kenneth W. The Story of Exhibitions. London and NY: Studio Publications, 1951. [Avery AA6750 G96 L96. Cited by Harris as best survey at that time.] Mandell, Richard D. Paris 1900: The Great World's Fair. Univ. of Toronto Press, 1967. See esp. bibliography and bibliographical essay, pp. 122-139. [Cited Harris. Science T804.B1 M3 1967a] Markus, Andrew. "The Carnival of Edo: Misemono Spectacles from Contemporary Accounts." HJAS, 45 (1985), pp. 499-541. May, Ekkehard. Die Kommerzialisierung der japanische Literatur in der sp„ten Edo- Zeit (1750-1868). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. [EA PL726.35 .M35 1983] Mitchell, Timothy. "Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order," in Nicholas Dirks, ed. Colonialism And Culture, 289-317. Mutsu, Hirokichi ed., The British Press and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910, with an introduction by William H. Coaldrake. London: Curzon Press, 2001 (originally published in 1911). Nat'l Gallery of Australia, Monet & Japan (dist. in the U.S. by Univ. of Washington Press, 2001) ISBN-0 642 54129 9 . General information on expositions, pp. 2-8, 26-30; esp. interesting also is the section on Monet and screen and fusuma painting, pp. 186-94, which discusses the possible impact on Monet's Water Lilies series, of installations like the replica of the room in Nishi Honganji, called the "Room of Cranes" because of the cranes carved in the transoms (although chrysanthemums are the subject of the fusuma) that was installed for a Japan-British exhibition held in London in 1910, and transferred in 1912 to the Musee Guimet, then located in Lyons. Nevers, Charles. piece on the Nio-mon (exhibited in St. Louis' "Official Japanese Empire Exhibit" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, and on the Japanese trees and pavillion in Philadelphia at the sesqui-centennial exhibition of 1926, when America turned 150 years old). Nicolai, Richard R. Centennial Philadelphia Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr Press, Inc. 1976. Okakura, Kakuzo. The Hō-ō-den (Phoenix Hall: An Illustrated Description of the Building Erected by the Japanese Government at the World's Columbian Exposition, Jackson Park, Chicago. Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1893. Olive Checkland, Japan and Britain after 1859 - Creating Cultural Bridges , London (Routledge Curzon), 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1747-1 Ono, Ayako Japonime in Britain: Whistler, Menpes, Henry, Hornel and nineteenth-century Japan, London (Routledge Curzon), 2003, ISBN 0-415-29686-2 Rydell, Robert. All the World's a Fair--Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984. [Butler T395.5 .U6 R93 1984] Sawaragi Noi. Senso to Banpaku (World wars and world expositions). Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan, 2005. Schwantes, Robert S. "Japan's Cultural Foreign Policies" in James W. Morley, ed., Japan's Foreign Policy, 1868-1941, A Research Guide (Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 153-83, specifically discusses international expositions pp. 160-4. Takenaka, Akiko. "Introduction," in "The Construction Of A War-Time National Identity: The Japanese Pavilion At New York's World's Fair 1939/40" (Master's Thesis, MIT, 1990), 13-28. Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, ed. Umi o watatta Meiji no bijutsu: saiken! 1893-nen Shikago Koronbusu Sekai Hakurankai (World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 revisited: 19th century Japanese art shown in Chicago, U.S.A.). Tokyo: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (some sections bi-lingual, 1997. Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, ed. Seiki no saiten bankoku hakurankai no bijutsu: Pari, Uin, Shikago banpaku ni miru tozai no meihin: 2005-nen Nihon Kokusai Hakurankai kaisai kinenten (Arts of East and West from world expositions: 1855- 1900: Paris, Vienna and Chicago: commemorating The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan). Tokyo: Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan. (some sections bi-lingual), 2004. Tomio Kentaro. "Visions of Modern Space," in NDSMJ, 719-733. Yamamoto Mitsuo. Nihon hakurankai shi Tokyo, 1970. Yoshida Mitsukuni, Tanaka Ikko, and Sesoko Tsune. The Hybrid Culture: What Happened when East and West Met. (It includes chapters on: The Hybrid Tradition, The Namban Influences (1641-1640), The Age of Deshima (1641- 1858), Japan Opens Its Doors (1859-1888), Japan Enters World Expositions (1851-1900), and Hybridization in the 20th Century). Publ. MAZDA, Hiroshima, 1984. [EA DS821.5 .A1 H93 1984. HS also has copy of both English and Japanese editions.] IN JAPANESE Arushiivu-sha, ed. Bankoku-haku no Nihonkan. Inax Booklet vol. 10, no. 1. Inax KK, 1990. Chikuma shobô, ed. Meiji Taishô zushi. 17 vols, 1978-79. Material on exhibitions may be found in I:118-121 (Tokyo), 152-3 (list of all major Meiji exhibitions); X:54- 59 (Kyoto); and XI:76-81 (Osaka). [EA 210.O82 M47. HS also has set.] Conant, Ellen [Eren Konanto]. "Meiji shoki ni okeru bijutsu to seiji--Fenorosa no 'eikyô' o megutte--." In Kindai Nihon no shisô to geijutsu, II, Kôza hikaku bungaku, pp. 61-85. Enami Shigeyuki and Mihashi Toshiaki. Saiminkutsu to hakurankai. JICC Shuppankyoku, 1989. [EA HT169.J3 E52 1989; Jordan Sand has a copy.] Fujitani T[akashi]. "Kindai Nihon ni okeru gunshû to tennô no peejento." Shisô, no. 797 (November 1990, pp. 148-164. [HS has xerox copy.] "Hakurankai--Kindaika to gijutsu iten." Shûkan Asahi hyakka--Nihon no rekishi, no. 106 (May 1988). [Jordan Sand has a copy.] Hashizume Shin'ya. Meiji no meigû toshi--Tokyo-Osaka no yûraku kûkan. Heibonsha, 1990. [HS has copy.] Kôbe kenritsu kindai bijutsukan. Nihon bijutsu no 19-seiki. Exhibition catalog, September 1990. [HS has copy.] Nagayama Sadatomi. Naigai hakurankai sôsetsu--narabi ni wagakuni ni okeru bankoku hakurankai no mondai. Suimei shoin, 1933. [NDL: 650/95; HS has copy of table of contents.] Nihon Bankoku hakurankai kyôkai. Ban-haku kaihô. No. 1, May 1936. [EA T391.B1] Shiina Noritaka. Meiji hakubutsukan kotohajime. Shibunkaku, 1989. First serialized for three years in magazine Hakubutsukan kenkyû. Leila Wice has a copy. Author also wrote Nihon no hakubutsukan, vol. 2 in Yûzankaku's Hakubutsukan kôza. Sumi Yutaka. Tokugawa Akitake--Banpaku tonosama ichidaiki. Chûkô shinsho #750, 1984. [EA DS881.5 T57 895 1984.] Taki Kôji. "Shikaku no kindai." In Chikuma shobô, ed, Meiji Taishô zushi, II:144-?. Taki Kôji. Tennô no shôzô. Iwanami shinsho, red series, #30, 1988. [EA DS882.7 .T35 1988] Tokyo kokuritsu bunkazai kenkyûjo Bijutsubu Dai-ni kenkyûshitsu, ed. "Kenkyû shiryô-- Naikoku kangyô hakurankai/Bankoku hakurankai kankei bunken shozai mokuroku." Bijutsu kenkyû, no. 348 (August 1991), pp. 68-90. A bibliography of surviving primary materials in Japanese libraries on Japanese exhibitions. [HS has offprint.] Yamamoto Mitsuo. Nihon hakurankai shi. Risôsha, 1970. [Cited by Yoshimi. EA 606 Y1.] Yoshida Mitsukuni. Bankoku hakurankai--Gijutsu bunmeishi-teki ni. Rev. ed. NHK Books 477, 1985. [HS has copy.] Yoshida Mitsukuni, ed. Zusetsu Bankoku hakurankai shi, 1851-1942. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 1985. [HS has two copies.] Yoshida Mitsukuni, ed. Bankoku hakurankai no kenkyû. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 1986. A collection of 15 essays by members of the Banoku Hakurankai Kenkyûkai in Kyoto, 1978-1983. [HS has copy.] Yoshimi Shun'ya. Toshi no doramaturugii--Tokyo sakariba no shakaishi. Kôbundô, 1987. Chapter II (pp. 117-192) deals with expositions. [HS has two copies.]