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Journal Article
Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
2010
Overview
This article explores the role of Japanese merchants within American art and collecting circles and analyzes the ways in which the construction of \"Asianness\" and, in particular, \"Japaneseness \"became intertwined with the classification of Asian art. In order to reconstitute the market for high art and to create their own positionalities as legitimate cultural intermediaries, Asian art dealers such as Bunkio Matsuki (1867— 1940) a n d Sadajiro Yamanaka (1866— 1936) used their connections to Japan as cultural capital. Ultimately, their experiences illuminate the complexities of the reconceptualization of ethnic— racial identities through the lens of aesthetic discourses.
