Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

by Hiroshi Nara

Book Overview

Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was thought at the time, and they used a variety of strategies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739118412
• ISBN13: 9780739118412
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"