Lecture: Industry and Institutions: Woodblock Prints and the Meiji Cultural Imagination (Dr. Alison J. Miller)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZHh3JuDuA This November 8, 2022, talk by Alison J. Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tennesee), provides an introduction to the woodblock prints of the 1870s and 1880s with a focus on how the images worked to create and reinforce social conceptions of Meiji values and ideals. During the early Meiji period…