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DESCRIPTION:This paper revises the contemporary discussions of borderlands.
  It suggests to replace borderlands* by boundaries of mind and culture and
  elucidates this by an example of Japan and the painter Shiba Kōkan.\n\nS
 hiba Kōkan (1747–1818)\, a Japanese painter and lover of all things Dut
 ch (Rangaku-sha) grew up in Edo (present-day Tokyo). He started making tra
 ditional colored woodblock prints and in the 1770s gradually became intere
 sted in Western art techniques. With the help of a friend who could read D
 utch\, he studied Dutch books and experimented with European techniques. I
 n 1783\, Kōkan made the first copperplate etching in Japan. It shows a ri
 ver landscape with the Mimeguri shrine. The Sumida River is busy with ship
 ping and people are walking along the shore. The technique of copperplate 
 engraving and etching had been brought to Japan by Portuguese Jesuits\, bu
 t had been lost after the expulsion of the Christians and the Portuguese a
 t the beginning of the 17th century. Kōkan noticed that the Dutch books a
 nd the illustrations therein were so realistic that you only needed to obs
 erve the image to understand the contents. This showed him the brilliance 
 and superiority of Western art\, and he proceeded: \n\nNobody in Japan kne
 w the method of copperplate etching. I reached back to a book by a Dutchma
 n called Boisu. I consulted it together with Ōtsuki Gentaku (1757–1827)
 \, who helped me with the translation of the text. In this way\, I could m
 ake copperplate images in Japan. In 1783\, I made the first etching.\n\n*F
 or borderland definitions see Lee and North(eds.)\, Globalizing Borderland
  Studies in Europe and North America (also available in Korean)
DTSTAMP:20260412T140126Z
LOCATION:Room 105 (Seats 84)
SUMMARY:From Borderlands to Boundaries of Culture and Mind - Michael North
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/LT97SS/
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