ジャパン・ソサイエティの初期の活動と『ステューディオ』誌について

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This paper compares the research activities in the 1 890s of the Japan Society, London (organized in 1892) with articles on Japan of the same age in The Studio, an art magazine, founded in 1893. C. Holme, the editor, and most of the writers of The Studio belonged to the Japan Society. At the ordinary meeting there, half read a paper on Japanese fine art and applied art. Most of these writers had written books and papers on fine art and applied art based on a visit to Japan before the Japan Society was established. They suggested that information on Japan reported to the Western public by The Studio based on investigation by intellectuals with experience of visiting to Japan, and that the Japan Society played an important part as a source of articles.