Frank Feltens

Frank Feltens is Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. His publications include Sesson Shūkei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan (Hirmer Publishers, 2021).

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Ed. Frank Feltens

Imagined Neighbors
Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680-1980

This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan’s period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the ...

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Ed. Frank Feltens

Imagined Neighbors
Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680-1980

This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan’s period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the ...

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Sesson Shūkei
A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan

Three essays by leading scholars in the field of Japanese art explore Sesson Shūkei’s unique life and unconventional painting style, as well as how scholarly perceptions of the artist have changed over time. Fifty-three entries highlight ...

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Frank Feltens

Ed. Frank Feltens

Imagined Neighbors

Ed. Frank Feltens

Imagined Neighbors

Ed. Frank Feltens et al.

Sesson Shūkei