Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art.
Tokyo; Vermont; Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2023.
Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.
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Author Information :
- Rhiannon Paget, Curator of Asian Art, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida.
- Rhiannon Paget, LinkedIn.
- torakichi_the_first, Rhiannon Paget, Instagram.
- Rhiannon Paget, GoodReads.
(A list of her books.) - Rhiannon Paget, The Japan Times.
(Her articles published in The Japan Times.) - Niki Kottmann, "Rhiannon Paget talks marine biology and Asian art", [Sarasota] Observer, 05 January 2018.
- "Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art with Rhiannon Paget (10.26.2023)", Bookstore1Sarasota, YouTube, 30 October 2023.
(An interview and audience Q&A, 37 minutes.) - "Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening (Lecture by Dr. Rhiannon Paget)", JASA: Japanese Art Society of America, YouTube, 13 July 2021.
(Divine Felines includes some works by Saitō Kiyoshi; in this talk his cat prints are discussed beginning at 28:48.) - "Purrfection in Print: Saitō Kiyoshi’s Feline Designs", Chester Beatty [Museum, Dublin, Ireland], YouTube, 25 February 2022.
(Includes a brief discussion of other artists' works that also appear in Divine Felines.)
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Wikipedia Articles :
- Japanese art.
- Japanese aesthetics.
- Kaibyō "(怪猫, 'strange cat') are supernatural cats in Japanese folklore."
- Bakeneko "(化け猫, 'changed cat') is a type of Japanese yōkai, or supernatural entity; more specifically, it is a kaibyō, or supernatural cat."
- Nekomata "(original form: 猫また, later forms: 猫又, 猫股, 猫胯) are a kind of cat yōkai described in Japanese folklore, classical kaidan, essays, etc."
- Maneki-neko "(招き猫, lit. 'beckoning cat') is a common Japanese figurine which is often believed to bring good luck to the owner."
- Cultural depictions of cats.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy :
- Graham Parkes and Adam Loughnane, Japanese Aesthetics.
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