Christine M E Guth

Biographic Data

ID755047
NAMEChristine M E Guth
GIVEN NAMESChristine M E
FAMILY NAMEGuth
SIGNATUREGUTH C M E
AFFILIATIONSHead, Asian Design Specialism, History of Design Programme, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Emerita, [email protected]
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Exemplary Things: Meibutsu in Premodern Japan

    Christine M E GuthBOOKExemplary Things2025

  • Benjamin Smith Lyman and Cosmopolitan Vegetarianism

    Open AccessChristine M E GuthARTICLEJournal of American Studies2022

    Studies of the development of vegetarianism in the United States between the Civil War and World War I emphasize the distinctly American character the movement assumed during this period. They take a top-down prescriptive perspective that emphasizes celebrated advocates of a meatless diet such as William Metcalfe, Sylvester Graham, Bronson Alcott, and J. H. Kellogg, ignoring the often humdrum reality of this food choice. This article instead exam…

  • Food for Fantasy: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna’s 1914 Chinese-Japanese Cook Book

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio2021

    In the 1914 “Chinese-Japanese Cook Book” biracial authors Sara Bosse and her sister Winnifred Eaton, a successful novelist known by the Japanesque pseudonym Onoto Watanna, adapted Chinese and Japanese dishes to appeal to white middle-class American women entertaining at home. Reading the domestication of these East Asian cuisines through this pioneering work that has been largely ignored by food historians shows how shopping, preparing the dishes…

  • The Japanese Stand Today as Teachers of the Whole World’: American Food Reform and the Russo-Japanese War

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2021References: 1

    Japanese food first became the focus of serious attention in the United States during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), when Japan’s victory over the Russian empire signaled that nation’s arrival as a new world power. This newfound interest had nothing to do with gastronomy. The conviction driving it was that diet and preventative health care in the Japanese military, which had been critical to its unexpected success, could serve as models for …

  • Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2020

    Reviewed by: Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett Christine M. E. Guth (bio) Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. By Rebecca Corbett. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2018. x, 189 pages. $68.00, cloth; $28.00, paper. Tea culture has been one of Japan's leading exports since the nineteenth century. Tea was performed at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and in 19…

  • Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art, by O’Neal, Halle

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEReligion and the Arts2019

  • Modeling, models, and knowledge exchange in early modern Japan

    Open AccessChristine M E GuthARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics2019References: 2

  • Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art

    Martin Collcutt, Doris Croissant et al.BOOKChallenging Past and Present2017

    The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during the course of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by a political event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both the preceding Edo (1615–1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868–1912) eras have shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creating an art-historical void that the former view as a period of waning technical and creative inventiveness and the …

  • Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

    Christine M E GuthBOOKHokusai's Great Wave2015

    Hokusai's "Great Wave," as it is commonly known today, is arguably one of Japan's most successful exports, its commanding cresting profile instantly recognizable no matter how different its representations in media and style. In this richly illustrated and highly original study, Christine Guth examines the iconic wave from its first publication in 1831 through the remarkable range of its articulations, arguing that it has been a site where the te…

  • Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

    Christine M E GuthBOOKHokusai's Great Wave2015

  • Theorizing the Hari Kuyō: The Ritual Disposal of Needles in Early Modern Japan

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEDesign and Culture2014References: 2

    In this article, I use actor—network theory (ANT) to throw light on the cultural logic of the hari kuyō—or ritual needle disposal. Hari kuyō dovetails with ANT principles because this ritual is a dynamic, historically constituted formation that is shaped by the distributive agency of a network of people, processes, and things. Held annually in temples and shrines across Japan since the Edo period (1603–1867), this ritual disposal of needles has b…

  • Hokusai's Great Waves in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Visual Culture

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEThe Art Bulletin2011

    Katsushika Hokusai's 1831 woodcut Under the Wave off Kanagawa, popularly known as The Great Wave, occupies an iconic place in modern visual culture. Looking at the sociocultural context in which Hokusai's iterations of this motif were first produced and consumed helps to explain why this image was singled out from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji of which it was a part. Waves served to express a range of ideas, practices, and even materials ass…

  • Hasegawa's Fairy Tales: Toying with Japan

    Open AccessChristine M E GuthARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics2008

  • Japan: Patronage

    Christine M E GuthCHAPTER2003

  • Connoisseurship

    Enrico Castelnuovo, Jaynie Anderson et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Japan: History and culture

    Bonnie Abiko, Richard Louis Edmonds et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Japan: Connoisseurship and historiography

    Christine M E GuthCHAPTER2003

  • Screen (ii)

    Christine M E Guth, J W TAYLORCHAPTER2003

  • Japan: Painting from the 14th century to 1868

    Stephen Addiss, Shugo Asano et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Charles Longfellow and Okakura Kakuzo: Cultural Cross-Dressing in the Colonial Context

    Christine M E GuthARTICLEpositions asia critique2000Cited by: 1References: 6

    positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 2000

  • Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha

    Christine M E Guth, Patricia J GrahamARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1999

    The Japanese tea ceremony is generally identified with chanoyu and its bowls of whipped, powdered green tea served in surroundings influenced by the tenets of Zen Buddhism. This is a study of the alternative tea tradition of sencha, at which gatherings steeped green leaf tea is prepared in an atmosphere indebted to the humanistic values of the Chinese sages and the materialistic culture of elite Chinese society during the Ming and Qing dynasties.…

  • Mapping Sectarian Identity: Onjōji's Statue of Shinra Myōjin

    Open AccessChristine M E GuthARTICLERes: Anthropology and Aesthetics1999

  • Kokuhō: From Dynastic to Artistic Treasure

    Christine M E GuthARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie1996

    Le point de départ de ce bref article fut l'étude d'Anna Seidel, parue en 1981, sur les origines du terme kokuhō en Chine et au Japon. Il examine, dans la perspective de la promulgation en 1897 de la Loi de protection des temples et sanctuaires anciens (Koshaji hozon hō), l'évolution de l'usage de ce terme : d "objet précieux" à "objet d'art"

  • Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615-1868

    Karen M Gerhart, Christine M E Guth et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1996

    This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) nurtured a magnificent tradition of painting, calligraphy, printmaking, ceramics, architecture, textile work, and lacquer. As each city created its own distinctive social, political, and economic …

  • Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle

    Frederick Baekeland, Takashi Masuda et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1994