Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets

Contents

vii Contents ix Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Notes to the Reader xvii An Afterword Posing as a Foreword: Some Comparative and Miscellaneous Thoughts on Talent and Training J . T H O M A S R I M E R 1 Introduction B R E N D A G . J O R D A N a n d V I C T O R I A W E S T O N 9 Chapter 1 Talent,Training, and Power:The Kano Painting Workshop in the Seventeenth Century K A R E N M . G E R H A RT 31 Chapter 2 Copying from Beginning to End? Student Life in the Kano School B R E N D A G . J O R D A N Contents viii 60 Chapter 3 In the Studio of Painting Study:Transmission Practices of Tani Bunchò F R A N K C H A N C E 86 Chapter 4 Kawanabe Kyòsai’s Theory and Pedagogy: The Preeminence of Shasei B R E N D A G . J O R D A N 116 Chapter 5 Okuhara Seiko:A Case of Funpon Training in Late Edo Literati Painting M A RT H A J . M C C L I N T O C K a n d V I C T O R I A W E S T O N 147 Chapter 6 Institutionalizing Talent and the Kano Legacy at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, 1889-1893 V I C T O R I A W E S T O N 178 Epilogue From Technique to Art B R E N D A G . J O R D A N 189 Appendix 195 Notes 233 Bibliography 243 Contributors 245 Index Color plates follow page 138 ...