Watanabe Kazan and Japan Art: Ideals of Confucianism to bleakness of Seppuku - Modern Tokyo Times

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Watanabe Kazan and Japan Art: Ideals of Confucianism to bleakness of Seppuku
Modern Tokyo Times
The artist Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841) highlights the fact that social mobility could break the alleged stratification of old Japan. After all, he was born into a samurai family that was relatively poor. Despite this, Watanabe paid a significant role in ...