Toward Tomorrow

This publication examines Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century.

This publication focuses on ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalogue entries highlighting spectacular artworks revealing Japanese artists's complex responses to Chinese art, history, and culture.