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Managing (Un)certainty in the Japanese Antique Art Trade - How Economic and Social Factors Shape a Market
Get PDFMarket actors are commonly faced with solving three distinct coordination problems as sources of uncertainty. How should they value the objects of their trade, how can they shield themselves from the competition, and with whom and how do they cooperate? This article investigates how Japanese antique art dealers confront these issues. While offering a rich description and analysis of a hitherto understudied Japanese market, the article shows how economic and social issues are closely intertwined. It contributes to our understanding of behaviour in a Japanese market in three ways: Firstly, it underscores how inclusion/exclusion, status, reputation, networks and hierarchies constitute a field that allows market exchanges to exist in the first place, while also channelling, and being impacted by these market exchanges. Secondly, contrary to neoclassical economic theory, where the idea of value has largely been abandoned, the findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between notions of value and price in the understanding of markets. Thirdly, the article shows how market actors actively shape market arrangements to address the specific challenges of their domain. In the case of the Japanese antique art market these challenges include high risks of fakes, a limited quantity of high quality material, market outsiders, and dealers with deep pockets
Sebastian Izzard: Kunisada's world. With essays by J. Thomas Rimer and John T. Carpenter. xi, 199 pp. New York: Japan Society of America [and] Ukiyo-e Society of America, 1993.
Get PDFPaul Van Der Velde [Vol. III with Ton Vermeulen]: The Deshima Dagregisters: their original tables of contents. Vols. in, iv, v. (Intercontinenta, nos. 11–12.) iv, 276 pp. 217 pp.; 236 pp. Leiden: Centre for the History of European Expansion, 1990.
Full text linkMarsha Weidner (ed.): Flowering in the shadows: women in the history of Chinese and Japanese painting. xvi, 315 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990 [pub. 1991]. $35.
Get PDFTaiga&s true views: the language of landscape painting in eighteenth-century Japan. By Melinda Takeuchi. pp. xviii, 211, 33 col. illus., 64 bl. and wh. illus., 37 reproductions of Taiga's seals. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1992. US $45.00.
Full text linkSusan C. Tyler: The cult of Kasuga seen through its art. (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 8.) xv, 214 pp. Ann Arbor: Centerfor Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1992. $39.95.
Full text linkA blue can conceal another! Noninvasive multispectroscopic analyses of mixtures of indigo and Prussian blue
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Introduction
No full textCommodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853 and 1854 is characterized as having “opened up” Japan1 and ushered in a period of transformation beginning with the Meiji Restoration (1867–1868). The history of the Meiji era (1868–1912) has received special attention2 but the role of science, technology, and medicine in the transformations that Japan underwent at that time and in the decades that immediately followed, has yet to be revisited
