Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
Translator’s Note
PLATES
Prologue: The Order of Things
CHAPTER 1: The World of Things Past and Kokikyūbutsu
CHAPTER 2: “The Past and the Present” and “The New and the Old”
CHAPTER 3: The Season of Exhibitions
CHAPTER 4: Active Antiquarians
CHAPTER 5: Antiquarians in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Epilogue
TABLE 1: Exhibition Practices and Policy Changes from the Late Tokugawa to Early Meiji Periods
TABLE 2: Significant Meiji Publications with Reproduced Illustrations
TABLE 3: Glossary
Works Cited
Illustration Credits
Biographical Notes on the Author and Translator
Index
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