{"id":8482,"date":"2014-06-17T11:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:24:39","slug":"geishas-by-gaslight-i-review-a-show-at-the-freer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/06\/geishas-by-gaslight-i-review-a-show-at-the-freer.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Geishas by Gaslight&#8221;: I review a show at the Freer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Freer Gallery named their show of wood-block prints by <em>fin de siecle<\/em> Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia.si.edu\/exhibitions\/current\/kiyochika\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Master of the Night<\/a>\u201d (on display through July 27th), but night is ancient and Kiyochika\u2019s work is distinctly modern. His prints show a world in transition. Some of the street scenes might almost be Victorian London; even the rickshaw used to pull a geisha through the night turns out to be a recent import, an innovation. Many of the scenes show people in traditional kimono mixing with bowler-hatted men in Western suits. This was Tokyo, the new capital city, hurrying toward the twentieth century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/geishas-by-gaslight-kobayashi-kiyochika-at-the-freer-gallery\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for AmCon: The Freer Gallery named their show of wood-block prints by fin de siecle Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika \u201cMaster of the Night\u201d (on display through July 27th), but night is ancient and Kiyochika\u2019s work is distinctly modern. His prints show a world in transition. 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