Old and New Japonisme: The Tokugawa Legacy and Modern European Images of Japan
Old and New Japonisme: The Tokugawa Legacy and Modern European Images of Japan
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新旧日本主义：德川遗产与现代欧洲日本形象
DOI：
10.1017/s0026749x00016437
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发表时间：
1984
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
Jean‐Pierre Lehmann
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作者：
Jean‐Pierre Lehmann
个人和社会受对现实的看法的影响和推动与受现实本身的影响和推动一样大，甚至可能更多。正是在这个意义上，一个社会相对于另一个社会的形象对于理解两者之间的关系具有非常重要的意义。日本官员倾向于强调，日本和欧洲之间存在的问题是“误解”造成的--事实上，恩迪米恩·威尔金森(Endymion Wilkinson)关于欧洲和日本的书(“误解”)在其日语版本GOKAI中被证明是如此畅销的事实表明，它在日本公众中引起了敏感的共鸣。换句话说，据称，这一形象与现实脱节。举办大日本展览大概是为了纠正和改善日本在西方的形象，即通过强调文化遗产来转移人们对更强大的工业层面的关注，这是一个完全合法的愿望。
Individuals and societies are as much influenced and motivated by perceptions of reality as by reality itself, indeed possibly more so. It is in that sense that the images which one society holds in relation to another are highly significant in terms of an understanding of the relationship between the two. Japanese officials tend to stress that problems which exist between Japan and Europe are due to ‘misunderstandings’—and indeed the fact that Endymion Wilkinson's book on Europe and Japan (‘Misunderstanding’) has proved such a best-seller in its Japanese version, GOKAI, indicates that it struck a sensitive chord among the Japanese public. In other words, the image, it is alleged, is out of focus with reality. Presumably an aspiration, and an entirely legitimate one, in the mounting of the Great Japan exhibition was to redress and improve Japan's image in the West, namely by stressing the cultural legacy with the intention of diverting attention from the more powerful industrial dimension.