Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note on Names xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Eye of the Shōhyaku-sha: Between Seeing and Knowing 15
8. 2. Ways of Conceptualizing the Real: Scripts, Names, and Materia Medica 53
9. 3. Modes of Observation and the Real: Exhibition Practices of the Shōhyaku-sha 79
10. 4. Picturing the Real: Questions of Fidelity and Processes of Pictorial Representation 105
11. 5. Shashin in the Capital: The Last Stage of Metamorphosis 155
12. Appendix: Takahashi Yuichi, “Yōgakyoku tekigen” (1865) 197
13. Notes 199
14. Glossary 241
15. Works Cited 243
16. Index 255