BIBFRAME Work

Title

Constructing Japan

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Löffler, Beate, 1971- (author)

Subject

• Architecture, Modern--Western countries--Japanese influences (LCSH)
• Architecture, Modern--19th century (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 724/.5 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: NA645 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"The influence of Japanese art and culture on art in late 19th-century Europe and America through collections of objects and knowledge transfer is already recognised. However, the research in this field often neglects architecture. This study takes a new approach, placing architecture at the centre. Through in-depth analysis of contemporary textual and visual sources, Beate Löffler shows how western actors from different backgrounds interpreted Japanese architecture as they experienced it, either face-to-face or via texts and images. It unveils a complex process of appropriation and rejection, of claim to interpretive sovereignty, and fascination with the foreign, that led to both new knowledge and cultural clichés"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Löffler, Beate, 1971-. Constructing Japan

Geographic Coverage

• 日本

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T22:23:57.699010+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24063512

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc