{"id":28998,"date":"2025-12-01T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28998"},"modified":"2025-12-01T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:09:21","slug":"shin-bijutsukai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/12\/01\/shin-bijutsukai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin-Bijutsukai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve spent a great deal of time looking at European design publications from before or after 1900 you may experience a shock of surprise when you encounter a Japanese publication from the same period. Shin-Bijutsukai<\/em><\/a> (“New Oceans of Art”) was a Japanese magazine published in monthly issues from 1902 to 1906. At first glance it looks like an equivalent of European design samplers such as Dekorative Vorbilder<\/em> or Documents d\u2019atelier: Art d\u00e9coratif moderne<\/em>, another collection of colour plates with little or no accompanying text. Many of the samples, however, are the kinds of designs you wouldn’t see in Europe for another 20 years, or even 50 years in some cases. The book linked here seems to contain a complete run of the magazine, and is part of the Smithsonian collection at the Internet Archive, a holding I still haven’t explored very thoroughly. A task for the future.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve spent a great deal of time looking at European design publications from before or after 1900 you may experience a shock of surprise when you encounter a Japanese publication from the same period. Shin-Bijutsukai (“New Oceans of Art”) was a Japanese magazine published in monthly issues from 1902 to 1906. At first glance … Continue reading “Shin-Bijutsukai”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Shin-Bijutsukai","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7xI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}