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August 19, 2008
Elizabeth Lillehoj, ed. Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan Warren, Conn.: Floating World Editions, 2007. 208 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Paper (9781891640506)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.82

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This edited anthology is the result of a symposium held in Chicago in 2005. It includes seven essays that “explore how and why people bought, sold, donated, and received works of art in the Edo period (1600–1868)” (i). The book is a much-needed addition to the growing literature on collecting and material culture in early modern Japan. The essays deal mainly with the acquisition of prints and paintings, but omit other collecting practices entirely. For...