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My favorite was a collection they had last year of old Ukiyo-e, Japanese wood-block printing from hundreds of years ago.
Sydney: Autumn in Oz Geoffrey Rogow 2011
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In the case of Ukiyo-e, the predilection is for something, a sensation conveyed and not for the actual material: I think the argument is that while the Japanese do create physical objects - these objects convey something else: found not within the objects but in other realms of the Japanese experience.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010
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As one of Ukiyo-e fans, I appreciate that Library of Congress exhibits Japanese Ukiyo-e so that they can be viewed by people in the world.
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Assets: The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance skip to main | skip to sidebar
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Of course Ukiyo-e is physical: But it isnt physical in the way Asimo is physical.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview 2010
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Again, let us remember that the point isnt that Otaku arent subcultural, but that their subalternity isnt causal vis-a-vis traits in exhibit - these same traits were in exhibit during the heyday of Ukiyo-e without Ukiyo-e being as or neccesarily subaltern.
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For instance, pop scholarship usually links the advent of Manga and anime as peculiarly Japanese, to previous forms in the culture, Ukiyo-e to be precise.
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Wasnt Ukiyo-e directly located within consumerist culture - wasnt it mass produced, crafted to appeal to hoi polloi, pornographic, rife with appeals to non normative sexuality - and perfectionist?
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“So, is the social organization that developed around Ukiyo-e and the perfectionism it exhibited due more to consumerism and structure and less to historical and cultural antecedents in Japan?”
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The industrial revolution and what you could call the post-industrial revolution (service, a decline in hours of work as society comes to value individuals as much as consumers as producers) are such decisive breaks with earlier forms of consumption (although mass produced Ukiyo-e are early modern in as much as they foreshadow machine reproduction of mass culture products) that drawing continuities with premodern production or Zen or whatnot seems extreme.
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