Table of Contents

Contents: Framing the Analysis: The State of the Field – Genealogy of the Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki Pictorialization – Hokusai and the Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki Series – Hokusai’s Visual Translation of the Selected Hyakunin isshu Poems – Manipulating the Canon: Focus on the Series Title – Kyōka: The Vehicle of Hokusai’s Nativistic Interests – The Land and its People: Hokusai’s Visual Construction of «Japan» – Evoking Community: Hokusai’s Voice in yonaoshi Discourse – Short Biography of Katsushika Hokusai – The Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki Images - Comparative Approach.

About the Author

The Author: Ewa Machotka is a researcher of Japanese art specializing in the interrelations between text and image in pre-modern visual culture. She studied in Krakow (M.A. in art history and classical Japanese literature) and Tokyo. She received her Ph.D. in Japanese art history from the Gakushuin University. Formerly she served as a curator of the Department of Far Eastern Art of the National Museum in Krakow and currently she works at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm.

Reviews

«‘Visual Genesis of Japanese Identity’ is a volume that deserves the attention of anyone working in the area of ukiyo-e studies, or on the reception of medieval Japanese literature in early-modern times.» (John Carpenter, Monumenta Nipponica)