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Magnificent art and architecture created for the emperor with the financial support of powerful warlords at the beginning of Japan’s early modern era (1580s-1680s) testify to the continued cultural and ideological significance of the imperial family. Works created in this context are discussed in this groundbreaking study, with over 100 illustrations in color.

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Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan is a beautiful produced volume, the second in Brill's Japanese Visual Culture series. Copiously illustrated in color, its plates are inserted throughout the book close to the relevant text rather than placed in a separate section. Its thorough and scholarly treatment of diverse topics relevant to the intersection of politics and elite culture during a vital period of Japan's history make the volume an extremely valuable resource for all students and scholars of Japan. - Journal of Japanese Studies 40:1 (2014)

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Elizabeth Lillehoj (Ph.D., Columbia University) has been teaching the history of Japanese art at DePaul University since 1988. She has published extensively on issues of court and elite warrior patronage of art in early modern Japan, and is the editor of Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700 and Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2004). .

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