LEADER 03262nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910785553803321 005 20230124190426.0 010 $a0-8047-8462-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804784627 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234157 035 $a(EBL)988835 035 $a(OCoLC)804661332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738857 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11484166 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738857 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10671025 035 $a(PQKB)10767731 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC988835 035 $a(DE-B1597)564028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804784627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL988835 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10590940 035 $a(OCoLC)1198929978 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234157 100 $a20120222d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe premise of fidelity$b[electronic resource] $escience, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan /$fMaki Fukuoka 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7790-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Names; Introduction; 1. The Eye of the Sho?hyaku-sha: Between Seeing and Knowing; 2. Ways of Conceptualizing the Real: Scripts, Names, and Materia Medica; 3. Modes of Observation and the Real: Exhibition Practices of the Sho?hyaku-sha; 4. Picturing the Real: Questions of Fidelity and Processes of Pictorial Representation; 5. Shashin in the Capital: The Last Stage of Metamorphosis; Appendix: Takahashi Yuichi, "Yo?gakyoku tekigen" (1865); Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index 330 $aThe Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of ""the real"" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars-from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats-known as Shohyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify ""photography"" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical, 606 $aArt and science$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBotanical illustration$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPlant prints$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPhotography$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRealism in art$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aArt and science$xHistory 615 0$aBotanical illustration$xHistory 615 0$aPlant prints$xHistory 615 0$aPhotography$xHistory 615 0$aRealism in art$xHistory 676 $a709.52 700 $aFukuoka$b Maki$f1972-$01507089 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785553803321 996 $aThe premise of fidelity$93737557 997 $aUNINA