The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a copying culture through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

Series editor's preface: Joy Hendry Introduction: Rupert Cox Section 1: Original Encounters 1. Irit Averbuch Body to body transmission: the copying tradition of Kagura performance 2. Jane Marie Law A Spectrum of Copies: Ritual Puppetry in Japan 3. Keiko Tanaka Copying in Japanese magazines: Unashamed copiers. Section 2: Arts of Citation 4. Ronald Toby The originality of the 'copy': Mimesis and Subversion in Hanegawa Toei's Chosenjin Ukie. 5. Alexandra Curvelo Copy to convert: Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan. 6. Morgan Pitelka Back to the Fundamentals: "Reproducing" Rikyu and Chojiro in Japanese Tea Culture 7. Rein Raud An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian and early Kamakura Japan. 8. John Carpenter Chinese Calligraphic Models in Heian Japan: Copying practices and stylistic transmission. Section 3: Modern Exchanges 9. William Coaldrake Beyond Mimesis: Japanese Architectural Models at the Vienna Exhibition and 1910 Japan British Exhibition 10. Christoph Brumann Copying Kyoto: the legitimacy of imitation in Kyoto's townscape debates. 11. Chris Madeley Copying Cars: Forgotten Licensing Agreements. 12. Rupert Cox 'Hungry Visions': the material life of Japanese food samples. Index