Visualisation of Japanese Nature in Josiah Conder’s Works

Shimizu, Yuki

doi:https://doi.org/10.18910/90919

Visualisation of Japanese Nature in Josiah Conder’s Works

Shimizu, Yuki

The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory, 2020, 3, 62-69

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タイトル	Visualisation of Japanese Nature in Josiah Conder’s Works
著者	著者名 Shimizu, Yuki
キーワード等	Josiah Conder
	The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement
	Landscape Gardening in Japan
	The Floral Art of Japan
	Botanical Illustration
内容	Theme I : Nature And Design
抄録	Since Japan had opened her ports to the world, the country aggressively assembled Westerner to introduce systems, techniques, and cultures from the West, and those who came Japan studies the unknown country in the Far East and published books. A British architect Josiah Conder (1852-1920) is one of them who tried to reveal Japanese culture. He wrote books about Japanese flowers and flower arrangement in The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement (1891) and The Floral Art of Japan (1899). In addition, he published Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893) with its companion book Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893). This paper is going to focus illustrations and photographs in those books to illuminate Conder’s attempt to discuss Japanese beauty with Western point of view and Japanese artistic sense. His first book about flowers in Japan The Flowers of Japan and The Art of Floral Arrangement adopted Japanese style while its content was written in Western scientific point of view that based on a paper for Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889. The cover of the book was drawn by a popular Japanese woodcut painter and has some coloured Japanese woodcuts by native artists. In Contrast to the first book, Landscape Gardening in Japan contains Western style expressions. He cited pictures by a Japanese Western-style painter instead of woodcuts. He also adopted photographs in Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan as he explains them “the most scientific means”. However, these Western style expressions could not be seen in his third book though the contents become more scientific. These shifts of illustrations reflects Conder’s attempt to illuminate possibility of Japanese art and ‘universally accepted art truths’.
出版者	The ACDHT 2019 FUKUOKA Executive Committee
収録物名	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory
巻(号)	3
ページ	62-69
刊行年月	2020-03
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/90919
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18910/90919
eISSN	21897166
アクセス権	open access
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	本学関連学会 Related Societies
カテゴリ	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory / No.3

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ローカル資源タイプ	本学関連学会
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DCTERMS.bibliographicCitation	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory. 2020, 3, p. 62-69
DC.title	Visualisation of Japanese Nature in Josiah Conder’s Works
DC.creator	Shimizu, Yuki
DC.publisher	The ACDHT 2019 FUKUOKA Executive Committee
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DC.subject	Josiah Conder
	The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement
	Landscape Gardening in Japan
	The Floral Art of Japan
	Botanical Illustration
DC.description	Theme I : Nature And Design
DCTERMS.abstract	Since Japan had opened her ports to the world, the country aggressively assembled Westerner to introduce systems, techniques, and cultures from the West, and those who came Japan studies the unknown country in the Far East and published books. A British architect Josiah Conder (1852-1920) is one of them who tried to reveal Japanese culture. He wrote books about Japanese flowers and flower arrangement in The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement (1891) and The Floral Art of Japan (1899). In addition, he published Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893) with its companion book Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan (1893). This paper is going to focus illustrations and photographs in those books to illuminate Conder’s attempt to discuss Japanese beauty with Western point of view and Japanese artistic sense. His first book about flowers in Japan The Flowers of Japan and The Art of Floral Arrangement adopted Japanese style while its content was written in Western scientific point of view that based on a paper for Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889. The cover of the book was drawn by a popular Japanese woodcut painter and has some coloured Japanese woodcuts by native artists. In Contrast to the first book, Landscape Gardening in Japan contains Western style expressions. He cited pictures by a Japanese Western-style painter instead of woodcuts. He also adopted photographs in Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan as he explains them “the most scientific means”. However, these Western style expressions could not be seen in his third book though the contents become more scientific. These shifts of illustrations reflects Conder’s attempt to illuminate possibility of Japanese art and ‘universally accepted art truths’.
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citation_journal_title	The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory
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