Title: Frog in the well : portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841 /
Authors: Keene, Donald; Watanabe, Kazan, 1793-1841
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Watanabe, Kazan,; Japan Intellectual life
Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dutch studies in Japan before 1793 -- Japan in 1793: Kazan's early years -- Genre paintings and early portraits -- Travels and career -- The early 1830s -- Foreign influence and major portraits -- The meeting of East and West -- Danger from overseas -- The road to prison -- The trial -- Kazan the painter -- The last year.