| FB-52885-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Morgan Pitelka | The Shogun's Things: A Cultural History of the Collection of Tokugawa Ieyasu | 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008 | $40,000.00 | Morgan | | Pitelka | | | | Occidental College | Los Angeles | CA | 90041-3314 | USA | 2006 | East Asian History | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
First I examine Tokugawa Ieyasu's successes through the lens of cultural practices such as falconry, collecting, and scholarship. Next I track the social lives of his collected objects after his death, particularly their resocialization as holy relics in the Toshogu shrines that were founded to deify him. Lastly I look at the new meanings attached to these objects as "art" with the founding of the Tokugawa Art Museum in 1935. The resulting book should function as a cultural biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu; an examination of the travels and functions of his collection; a case study in the invention of "art" in modern Japan; and an extended meditation on the changing representation and signification of the Tokugawa. |