Tomii Masaakira’s Role in Émile Guimet’s Promenades Japonaises: Tokio-Nikko (エミール・ギメの『日本散策：東京・日光』における富井政章の役割)
(2025) 27th Spring Conference of the International Ukiyo-e Society — Location: Tokyo, Japan (21.June.2025)
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- In 1876, the Lyon industrialist and collector Émile Guimet traveled to Japan, China, and India, deepening his interest in ancient religions and comparative civilizations. His travel accounts, notably Promenades japonaises: Tokyo–Nikkō (1880), introduced Japanese painting and the artist Kawanabe Kyōsai to European readers for the first time. Drawing on newly analyzed manuscripts held at the Guimet Museum, this presentation reveals the unacknowledged role of Japanese legal scholar Tomii Masaakira in shaping Guimet’s text, challenging assumptions of sole authorship and revising the historiography of Kyōsai’s reception in France. (Presentation in Japanese)
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Terryn, F. (2025). Tomii Masaakira’s Role in Émile Guimet’s Promenades Japonaises: Tokio-Nikko (エミール・ギメの『日本散策：東京・日光』における富井政章の役割). 27th Spring Conference of the International Ukiyo-e Society, Tokyo, Japan. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269680