The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan

by W. Puck Brecher

This book provides a corrective to existing scholarship on eccentric artists by reconsidering the sudden and dramatic emergence of aesthetic strangeness during the mid Edo period. It explains how through the period, eccentricity and madness developed and

Genres: Japan, Art

280 pages, Hardcover

First published July 31, 2013

About the author

W. Puck Brecher is Associate Professor of Japanese History at Washington State University.