Showing Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum by Yukiko Shirahara

Japan Envisions the West Considers how Japan encountered the West and learned about and adopted their arts, culture, and science, and how the West discovered Japanese arts and culture. This book also features works of art from the Kobe City Museum, whose collection focuses on Western-style Japanese art created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.