This is a long-awaited publication on the history of Japanese art after 1868. As the editor of this volume, J. Thomas Rimer, articulates in the introduction, Japanese art after 1868 has been largely dismissed, compared with the rich pool of literature on premodern art of Japan, such as ukiyo-e and Buddhist art. The state of the field has changed dramatically since the late 1980s through the 1990s thanks to the individual efforts of such scholars and curators as—just to mention a few names among the contributors of this volume—J. Thomas Rimer, Ellen P. Conant, Reiko Tomii, John Clark, Chiaki Ajioka, and Toshio Watanabe, active in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, respectively. Since Meiji includes recent work by these pioneering scholars as well as by younger academics who have become particularly active in the new millennium, together with two art historians based in Japan. By embracing a wide...

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