Author ｜
Shanling Guo
Abstract ｜
Ichisada Miyazaki is a scholar of the Kyoto School in Japanese Oriental history. His research on the field of art such as Nanga 南畫is a subject that cannot be ignored in Miyazaki’s historiography. Miyazaki analyzes the historical development of Chinese Nanga with his elegant “Nanga taste” and believes that the spread of Nanga to the east has a great impact on the field of Japanese art, while the spread to the west promoted the Western “Renaissance” and formed a large-scale “Oriental taste.” This not only results in the transformation of Chinese painting from Nanga to Toyoga 東洋畫, but also reflects the close relationships of Miyazaki’s art research in his historical studies with Konan Naitō’s art-historical view and Jitsuzo Kuwabara’s “historical view of East-West communication.” It also reflects that the dissemination of art is beneficial to historical research. By referring to the perspective of Miyazaki’s historiography, this paper aims to explore the process of Miyazaki using art as a means to study the cultural exchange between the East and the West and understand his theory that history, aesthetics and historical concept are connected by “East-West communication” in the field of history. It also explores that due to the shackles of ideology, Miyazaki’s art and history studies still serve the politics and the national missions of modern Japan.
keywords ｜
Ichisada Miyazaki, Nanga, Renaissance, Toyoga