Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. He viewed their relationship as doomed by their introverted ...
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In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. He viewed their relationship as doomed by their introverted dispositions and differences in background. While confessing his love to Stoddard, Noguchi had a child with his editor, Léonie Gilmour; became engaged to Ethel Armes; and upon his return to Japan married Matsu Takeda—all within a span of seven years. This book argues that Noguchi was not a dedicated polyamorist: He deliberately deceived the three women, to whom he either pretended or promised marriage while already married. The book asserts further that Noguchi's intimacies point to little-known realities of race and sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and illuminate how Asian immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community. As Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences, his affairs assert how Japanese in America could forge romantic fulfillment during a period historians describe as one of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Moreover, Noguchi's relationships reveal how individuals who engaged in seemingly defiant behavior could exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. In unveiling Noguchi's interracial and same-sex affairs, this book attests to the complex interaction between lived sexualities and socio-legal mores as it traces how one man negotiated affection across cultural, linguistic, and moral divides to find fulfillment in unconventional yet acceptable ways.Less
In September 1897 Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) contemplated crafting a poem to his new love, western writer Charles Warren Stoddard. He viewed their relationship as doomed by their introverted dispositions and differences in background. While confessing his love to Stoddard, Noguchi had a child with his editor, Léonie Gilmour; became engaged to Ethel Armes; and upon his return to Japan married Matsu Takeda—all within a span of seven years. This book argues that Noguchi was not a dedicated polyamorist: He deliberately deceived the three women, to whom he either pretended or promised marriage while already married. The book asserts further that Noguchi's intimacies point to little-known realities of race and sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and illuminate how Asian immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community. As Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences, his affairs assert how Japanese in America could forge romantic fulfillment during a period historians describe as one of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Moreover, Noguchi's relationships reveal how individuals who engaged in seemingly defiant behavior could exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. In unveiling Noguchi's interracial and same-sex affairs, this book attests to the complex interaction between lived sexualities and socio-legal mores as it traces how one man negotiated affection across cultural, linguistic, and moral divides to find fulfillment in unconventional yet acceptable ways.
Wei Ming Dariotis
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781447301011
- eISBN:
- 9781447307228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447301011.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an ...
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Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an increasingly multiracial nation.Less
Mixed-race kin-aesthetics forces us to consider how family, the public sphere, and ideology intersect to dictate not only how others perceive us, but ultimately how we perceive ourselves in an increasingly multiracial nation.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his ...
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This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his affairs with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, the book shows how Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences and managed to exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. Noguchi's intimacies illuminate how Japanese immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community and achieved romantic fulfillment at the turn of the century—a period characterized by historians as a moment of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Building on biographies of Yone Noguchi and studies of sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and late Meiji Japan, combined with debates about queer cultures and Western imperialism, this book reveals how Noguchi was able to articulate same-sex love and interracial marriage even in the face of racism.Less
This book examines the confluence of race, sexuality, gender, and nation in the intimate relationships of Yone Noguchi. From his expression of impassioned love to Charles Warren Stoddard to his affairs with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, the book shows how Noguchi maneuvered through cultural and linguistic differences and managed to exist peaceably within prevailing moral mandates. Noguchi's intimacies illuminate how Japanese immigrants negotiated America's literary and arts community and achieved romantic fulfillment at the turn of the century—a period characterized by historians as a moment of extreme sexual deprivation and discrimination for Asians, particularly in California. Building on biographies of Yone Noguchi and studies of sexuality in turn-of-the-century America and late Meiji Japan, combined with debates about queer cultures and Western imperialism, this book reveals how Noguchi was able to articulate same-sex love and interracial marriage even in the face of racism.
Jutta Schickore
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226449982
- eISBN:
- 9780226450049
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226450049.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Simon Flexner and Hideyo Noguchi’s work discusses venom research from the perspective of immunology. They could draw on a much broader pool of resources than Mitchell had available—conceptual, ...
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Simon Flexner and Hideyo Noguchi’s work discusses venom research from the perspective of immunology. They could draw on a much broader pool of resources than Mitchell had available—conceptual, methodological, and material. The mechanism of venom poisoning served as a model for the immune reaction and as a convenient tool for its investigation. Drawing heavily on Paul Ehrlich’s conception of the immune response, Flexner and Noguchi examined the activity of various components of snake venoms. They aimed to establish the existence and agency of substances that were not directly observable, while stabilizing very complex experimental environments. These methodological challenges linked their work with contemporaneous medical and biological experimentation in bacteriology and in seemingly remote fields, such as experimental embryology. The chapter illustrates how venom researchers and other experimenters in the life sciences addressed the problems of validating hypotheses about invisible entities and how they relied on standard units and thresholds to control the variability of experimental conditions, organisms, and biological specimen. The chapter also charts the emerging discussions about how to write scientifically. One of the main motivations for the turn to so-called deductive composition was the notion that “composing deductively” could facilitate the researcher’s understanding of a paper's main points.Less
Simon Flexner and Hideyo Noguchi’s work discusses venom research from the perspective of immunology. They could draw on a much broader pool of resources than Mitchell had available—conceptual, methodological, and material. The mechanism of venom poisoning served as a model for the immune reaction and as a convenient tool for its investigation. Drawing heavily on Paul Ehrlich’s conception of the immune response, Flexner and Noguchi examined the activity of various components of snake venoms. They aimed to establish the existence and agency of substances that were not directly observable, while stabilizing very complex experimental environments. These methodological challenges linked their work with contemporaneous medical and biological experimentation in bacteriology and in seemingly remote fields, such as experimental embryology. The chapter illustrates how venom researchers and other experimenters in the life sciences addressed the problems of validating hypotheses about invisible entities and how they relied on standard units and thresholds to control the variability of experimental conditions, organisms, and biological specimen. The chapter also charts the emerging discussions about how to write scientifically. One of the main motivations for the turn to so-called deductive composition was the notion that “composing deductively” could facilitate the researcher’s understanding of a paper's main points.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter looks at the lives of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard before they met in 1897, focusing on the differences and similarities they brought to their relationship. Noguchi and ...
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This chapter looks at the lives of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard before they met in 1897, focusing on the differences and similarities they brought to their relationship. Noguchi and Stoddard hailed from very different backgrounds and had an age gap of thirty-two years. Noguchi's eagerness to write in English would lead him to America and later to writer Joaquin Miller's home in Oakland, where he was initiated into San Francisco's Bohemian Club and met various artists and writers who drew inspiration from him. One of these writers was Stoddard, who was drawn not only to Japan but also to the Pacific Islands. By 1900 Stoddard had established himself as an expert on the “South Seas,” having published essays and books on his travels through various islands. While Noguchi blazed his own trail to forge interactions with Western poets and writers, Stoddard directed his attention across the Pacific. This chapter shows how Noguchi and Stoddard's common love of poetry sparked their immediate affection for one another.Less
This chapter looks at the lives of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard before they met in 1897, focusing on the differences and similarities they brought to their relationship. Noguchi and Stoddard hailed from very different backgrounds and had an age gap of thirty-two years. Noguchi's eagerness to write in English would lead him to America and later to writer Joaquin Miller's home in Oakland, where he was initiated into San Francisco's Bohemian Club and met various artists and writers who drew inspiration from him. One of these writers was Stoddard, who was drawn not only to Japan but also to the Pacific Islands. By 1900 Stoddard had established himself as an expert on the “South Seas,” having published essays and books on his travels through various islands. While Noguchi blazed his own trail to forge interactions with Western poets and writers, Stoddard directed his attention across the Pacific. This chapter shows how Noguchi and Stoddard's common love of poetry sparked their immediate affection for one another.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter recounts the beginning of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard's correspondence in 1897, when the former declared his affections toward Stoddard, and traces their growing intimacy in ...
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This chapter recounts the beginning of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard's correspondence in 1897, when the former declared his affections toward Stoddard, and traces their growing intimacy in the context of their bohemian circle of artist and writer friends until 1900. Noguchi's letters to Stoddard proved unique as compared to correspondence with his other literary colleagues, particularly Blanche Partington, his editorial assistant in San Francisco. Past scholarship has attributed Noguchi and Stoddard's intimacy to a culture of late Victorian bohemian melodrama in which passion among men proved typical rather than exceptional, but this chapter argues that their relationship was different from typical relationships between bohemian men of the time. The correspondence between Noguchi and Stoddard highlights the ways in which men cultivated passionate romantic relationships based on emotional love rather than sex. This chapter also examines the ramifications of the Noguchi–Stoddard romance for same-sex and interracial relationships between Asians and whites in the context of a racially segregated America rife with moralistic movements.Less
This chapter recounts the beginning of Yone Noguchi and Charles Warren Stoddard's correspondence in 1897, when the former declared his affections toward Stoddard, and traces their growing intimacy in the context of their bohemian circle of artist and writer friends until 1900. Noguchi's letters to Stoddard proved unique as compared to correspondence with his other literary colleagues, particularly Blanche Partington, his editorial assistant in San Francisco. Past scholarship has attributed Noguchi and Stoddard's intimacy to a culture of late Victorian bohemian melodrama in which passion among men proved typical rather than exceptional, but this chapter argues that their relationship was different from typical relationships between bohemian men of the time. The correspondence between Noguchi and Stoddard highlights the ways in which men cultivated passionate romantic relationships based on emotional love rather than sex. This chapter also examines the ramifications of the Noguchi–Stoddard romance for same-sex and interracial relationships between Asians and whites in the context of a racially segregated America rife with moralistic movements.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's journey to meet Charles Warren Stoddard in his Washington, DC, bungalow in 1900 and the intimacies that would evolve from his move east up until 1904, namely, ...
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This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's journey to meet Charles Warren Stoddard in his Washington, DC, bungalow in 1900 and the intimacies that would evolve from his move east up until 1904, namely, those with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes. Though Noguchi declares he is married to Gilmour and proposes marriage to Armes, continued correspondence with Stoddard suggests that he is infinitely more emotionally connected with Stoddard than with the two women. Their affairs are almost immediately charged by Noguchi's race, as his white lovers articulate their attraction to Noguchi using metaphors that evoke an exotic and mysterious Japan. This chapter considers how Noguchi's treatment of his own race takes a distinct turn as he more explicitly evokes the Orient to further his personal and professional affairs. It shows that Noguchi's manipulation of race and racialization illustrates the dilemmas Asians in America juggled with the pressures of racism and Orientalism.Less
This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's journey to meet Charles Warren Stoddard in his Washington, DC, bungalow in 1900 and the intimacies that would evolve from his move east up until 1904, namely, those with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes. Though Noguchi declares he is married to Gilmour and proposes marriage to Armes, continued correspondence with Stoddard suggests that he is infinitely more emotionally connected with Stoddard than with the two women. Their affairs are almost immediately charged by Noguchi's race, as his white lovers articulate their attraction to Noguchi using metaphors that evoke an exotic and mysterious Japan. This chapter considers how Noguchi's treatment of his own race takes a distinct turn as he more explicitly evokes the Orient to further his personal and professional affairs. It shows that Noguchi's manipulation of race and racialization illustrates the dilemmas Asians in America juggled with the pressures of racism and Orientalism.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines Yone Noguchi's engagement to Ethel Armes and Charles Warren Stoddard's disapproval of it. By December 1903 Noguchi appeared to be married to Léonie Gilmour, even as he ...
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This chapter examines Yone Noguchi's engagement to Ethel Armes and Charles Warren Stoddard's disapproval of it. By December 1903 Noguchi appeared to be married to Léonie Gilmour, even as he reinforced his engagement to Armes and wrote letters of affection to Stoddard. Noguchi and Armes's relationship proved particularly tortured as the two fell into disagreements. This chapter narrates how Noguchi and Armes became embroiled in queer intimacies as they promised to take each other's hand in marriage. It shows that Armes's involvement in intimate female “friendships” is proof of how seemingly separate worlds of male and female “romantic friendships” intertwined with confessions of subdued love as well as high drama.Less
This chapter examines Yone Noguchi's engagement to Ethel Armes and Charles Warren Stoddard's disapproval of it. By December 1903 Noguchi appeared to be married to Léonie Gilmour, even as he reinforced his engagement to Armes and wrote letters of affection to Stoddard. Noguchi and Armes's relationship proved particularly tortured as the two fell into disagreements. This chapter narrates how Noguchi and Armes became embroiled in queer intimacies as they promised to take each other's hand in marriage. It shows that Armes's involvement in intimate female “friendships” is proof of how seemingly separate worlds of male and female “romantic friendships” intertwined with confessions of subdued love as well as high drama.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's return to Japan, his career ascent as an expert on the Occident, his deteriorating relationships with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, and his renewed affection ...
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This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's return to Japan, his career ascent as an expert on the Occident, his deteriorating relationships with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, and his renewed affection for Charles Warren Stoddard between 1904 and 1909. Armes called off her engagement with Noguchi while Gilmour traveled to Japan to join him. Even before Gilmour's arrival, Noguchi had married and maintained a separate household with a Japanese woman, Matsuko Takeda. This chapter discusses Noguchi's personal ambivalence regarding the gravity of same-sex sexuality as a heinous crime and his understanding that homosexuality could ruin his career as a writer. It also considers how Noguchi's Japanese-language publications began to proclaim his heterosexuality more explicitly than in his previous writings.Less
This chapter recounts Yone Noguchi's return to Japan, his career ascent as an expert on the Occident, his deteriorating relationships with Léonie Gilmour and Ethel Armes, and his renewed affection for Charles Warren Stoddard between 1904 and 1909. Armes called off her engagement with Noguchi while Gilmour traveled to Japan to join him. Even before Gilmour's arrival, Noguchi had married and maintained a separate household with a Japanese woman, Matsuko Takeda. This chapter discusses Noguchi's personal ambivalence regarding the gravity of same-sex sexuality as a heinous crime and his understanding that homosexuality could ruin his career as a writer. It also considers how Noguchi's Japanese-language publications began to proclaim his heterosexuality more explicitly than in his previous writings.
Amy Sueyoshi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834975
- eISBN:
- 9780824870683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834975.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This epilogue traces the lives of Yone Noguchi, Léonie Gilmour, and Ethel Armes after Charles Warren Stoddard's death and highlights Noguchi's personal rather than literary significance in bohemian ...
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This epilogue traces the lives of Yone Noguchi, Léonie Gilmour, and Ethel Armes after Charles Warren Stoddard's death and highlights Noguchi's personal rather than literary significance in bohemian America. Part of the first wave of Japanese immigrants to the continental United States, Noguchi found himself involved in queer intimacies, and his story illustrates how dominant norms of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship significantly shape people's intimate lives even as they might appear transgressive. This epilogue first considers the debates within and across Japan studies, literary history, and Asian American studies about the significance and impact of Noguchi's publications. It then explains how Noguchi's personal affairs, closeted for more than a century, offer remarkable insights into the histories of sexuality, bohemian America, and Asian America. Finally, it assesses the significance of the “outing” of Noguchi's same-sex love affair.Less
This epilogue traces the lives of Yone Noguchi, Léonie Gilmour, and Ethel Armes after Charles Warren Stoddard's death and highlights Noguchi's personal rather than literary significance in bohemian America. Part of the first wave of Japanese immigrants to the continental United States, Noguchi found himself involved in queer intimacies, and his story illustrates how dominant norms of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship significantly shape people's intimate lives even as they might appear transgressive. This epilogue first considers the debates within and across Japan studies, literary history, and Asian American studies about the significance and impact of Noguchi's publications. It then explains how Noguchi's personal affairs, closeted for more than a century, offer remarkable insights into the histories of sexuality, bohemian America, and Asian America. Finally, it assesses the significance of the “outing” of Noguchi's same-sex love affair.
Thomas R. H. Havens
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824841010
- eISBN:
- 9780824869083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824841010.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Takahashi Naoko won the women’s marathon at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was widely admired for her persistence, patience, self-discipline, and humility. Her success helped fuel the boom in civic ...
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Takahashi Naoko won the women’s marathon at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was widely admired for her persistence, patience, self-discipline, and humility. Her success helped fuel the boom in civic racing in Japan. Takahashi turned professional in 2001 and set a new world standard in the women’s marathon that year in Berlin. The following year Takaoka Toshinari recorded the fastest marathon ever run by a Japanese man. Japan’s men’s and women’s marathon squads both won the informal team championships at the 2004 Athens Olympics, led by Noguchi Mizuki’s gold medal in the women’s race. Japanese marathoners performed poorly at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and little better at London in 2012. From 2008 on, many elite races in Japan began admitting citizen runners and generated huge fields. Kawauchi Yūki, an unaffiliated amateur, emerged as a celebrity in 2011 in defiance of both corporate track teams and professional sponsorships.Less
Takahashi Naoko won the women’s marathon at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was widely admired for her persistence, patience, self-discipline, and humility. Her success helped fuel the boom in civic racing in Japan. Takahashi turned professional in 2001 and set a new world standard in the women’s marathon that year in Berlin. The following year Takaoka Toshinari recorded the fastest marathon ever run by a Japanese man. Japan’s men’s and women’s marathon squads both won the informal team championships at the 2004 Athens Olympics, led by Noguchi Mizuki’s gold medal in the women’s race. Japanese marathoners performed poorly at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and little better at London in 2012. From 2008 on, many elite races in Japan began admitting citizen runners and generated huge fields. Kawauchi Yūki, an unaffiliated amateur, emerged as a celebrity in 2011 in defiance of both corporate track teams and professional sponsorships.
Christine M. E. Guth
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839598
- eISBN:
- 9780824871550
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839598.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter explores the shifting forms and meanings of “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” as Japan came to be recognized as a part of the developed world, but one at some cultural distance from and ...
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This chapter explores the shifting forms and meanings of “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” as Japan came to be recognized as a part of the developed world, but one at some cultural distance from and threatening to other rich and powerful Western nations. Beginning with the formation of private and public collections of Japanese prints in the 1890s, when American prosperity created a flourishing culture of collecting, and concluding more than a century later, this chapter selectively considers both the wave’s incarnations in the United States and those Japanese artists created in response to American constructs of Japan, tracing the image’s movements in and out of the spaces of collecting and exhibitions, children’s books, graphic design, and new artworks.Less
This chapter explores the shifting forms and meanings of “Under the Wave off Kanagawa” as Japan came to be recognized as a part of the developed world, but one at some cultural distance from and threatening to other rich and powerful Western nations. Beginning with the formation of private and public collections of Japanese prints in the 1890s, when American prosperity created a flourishing culture of collecting, and concluding more than a century later, this chapter selectively considers both the wave’s incarnations in the United States and those Japanese artists created in response to American constructs of Japan, tracing the image’s movements in and out of the spaces of collecting and exhibitions, children’s books, graphic design, and new artworks.
Brett J. Esaki
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190251420
- eISBN:
- 9780190251352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190251420.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter explores monuments to Japanese American heritage created after the internment camps, with special attention to the era after the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted reparations to ...
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This chapter explores monuments to Japanese American heritage created after the internment camps, with special attention to the era after the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted reparations to internees. It examines the history of monuments by Robert Murase and Isamu Noguchi, including the artists' utilization of the silence of legacy, which passes down a political message integrated with modern art and conceptions of indigenous religions (a practice called “spiritual indigeneity”). While previous chapters analyzed how non-binary silence helped Japanese Americans to survive and to preserve religion, this chapter challenges this narrative by illustrating silence's potential to contribute to oppression. Japanese Americans, facing controversy, made monuments abstract, but this obscured messages of legacy. This is problematic because Japanese Americans want to convey racial uplift, yet without clarity the monuments may be used to contribute to racial oppression. In this respect, this chapter focuses on reception and interpretation.Less
This chapter explores monuments to Japanese American heritage created after the internment camps, with special attention to the era after the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which granted reparations to internees. It examines the history of monuments by Robert Murase and Isamu Noguchi, including the artists' utilization of the silence of legacy, which passes down a political message integrated with modern art and conceptions of indigenous religions (a practice called “spiritual indigeneity”). While previous chapters analyzed how non-binary silence helped Japanese Americans to survive and to preserve religion, this chapter challenges this narrative by illustrating silence's potential to contribute to oppression. Japanese Americans, facing controversy, made monuments abstract, but this obscured messages of legacy. This is problematic because Japanese Americans want to convey racial uplift, yet without clarity the monuments may be used to contribute to racial oppression. In this respect, this chapter focuses on reception and interpretation.
