Table of contents : Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. Introduction: A Historiographical Overview Part One. “History” Reviewed and Visualized 2. Cultural Change in Nineteenth-Century Japan 3. History Painting in the Meiji Era: A Consideration of the Issues 4. Mori Ōgai’s Phantom Partner: The Development of a Public for Western-style Painting in Meiji Japan Part Two. Resituating Yokohama 5. Innovational Adaptations: Contacts between Japanese and Western Artists in Yokohama, 1859–1899 6. Expectation and Authenticity in Meiji Tourist Photography 7. Gorgeous with Glitter and Gold: Miyagawa Kōzan and the Role of Satsuma Export Ware in the Early Meiji Ceramic Industry Part Three. Reconfiguring Painting Traditions 8. In Quest of the Real: Portrayal and Photography in Japanese Painting Theory 9. Meiji Response to Bunjinga 10. The Image of Kannon as Compassionate Mother in Meiji Art and Culture Part Four. Architecture and Expositions Intent and Implementation 11. Reassessing the Rokumeikan 12. Japanese Imperial Architecture: From Thomas Roger Smith to Itō Chūta 13. Japan “Abroad” at the Chicago Exposition, 1893 Contributors Index