{"product_id":"un-bestiaire-japonais-vivre-avec-les-animaux-a-edo-tokyo-xviiie-xixe-siecle","title":"A Japanese Bestiary: Living with Animals in Edo-Tokyo (18th-19th Century).","description":"For more than two hundred years, from the closure order\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e of the country of 1639, Japan of the Edo period (1603-1868) restricted\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e drastically the exchanges with the outside world. After the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e signing of trade treaties with the United States and Europe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in 1858 but especially from the Meiji Restoration (1868), the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e government adopts a policy of industrialization of the country and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e promotes the introduction of Western ideas. Foreigners who\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e then went to Japan and left detailed descriptions of the country\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and its inhabitants. The American naturalist Edward S. Morse notes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in Japan Day by Day that city dwellers bypass or step over\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e dogs and cats lounging in the middle of the road so as not to\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e disturb, and use the honorific suffix \"san\" to call them\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (equivalent to \"Mr.\" or \"Mrs.\") The painter and draftsman \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrench Georges Bigot (1860-1927), who stayed in Japan from\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 1882 left a large number of works full of humor, animals\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and people. A long period of peace and stability gives the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Tokyo residents the leisure to enjoy life and have fun.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e willingly surrounds himself with pets: small dogs and cats,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e small birds such as nightingales and quails, or even\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e insects whose song we enjoy, such as crickets and grasshoppers.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The inhabitants of Edo, a city with a topography rich in hills, rivers, and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e open to the sea, live in connection with nature and seasonal rites\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e mark the course of the year as changes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e seasonal offers many opportunities to admire superb\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e nearby natural landscapes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e First clay figurines of wild boars or others, under the influence\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e of Chinese civilization, animals are then represented under\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e fantastic shapes from the continent like phoenixes and \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edragons make their appearance as well as animals that we do not\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e not found in Japan, such as tigers and peacocks.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The flourishing of a refined civilization based on aesthetics\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Properly Japanese stands out from Chinese culture and art:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e animals then begin to represent the spirit of a season or\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e symbolize traditional Japanese stories. With the development,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in literature, word games based on the sounds and meaning of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Japanese language, we appreciate the drawings of animals synonymous with\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e auspicious because of their names or the way they are written.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Thus, in the Edo period, the new financial power of the class\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e shopping stimulates the birth of a true urban culture\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and the refinement of various objects of everyday life: the patterns\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e decorative animals evolve towards a greater\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e design freedom and richer variations.","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43660220334320,"sku":"26175","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/51hFP_nAc7L._SX363_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1668786304","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/un-bestiaire-japonais-vivre-avec-les-animaux-a-edo-tokyo-xviiie-xixe-siecle","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}