Art and the Inaka: Yamamoto Kanae and New Conceptions of Modernity in Rural Japan
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Abstract
Yamamoto Kanae (山本 鼎, 1882-1946) is credited as the founder of sōsaku hanga (The Creative Prints Movement) in Japan as well as the developer of nōmin bijutsu (The Farmers' Art Movement) and jidō jiyūga no shōrei (The Children's Free Drawing Movement), all of which have retained lasting social and cultural legacies up to the present day.However, while some scholarship exists on his work with these individual projects, there is a paucity of research connecting these seemingly disparate, yet deeply thematically entangled, movements.This thesis divides Yamamoto's career into three periods-his time in Paris, Moscow, and Ueda-looking at how his experience in Moscow particularly informed his complex ideological approach to art.The discussion of his engagement with Russian folk arts and thinkers acts as a stepping stone to construct a broader understanding of moments of transcultural exchange between Japan and Russia at the turn of the twentieth century.By examining Yamamoto's life and work within the context of his contemporaries and concurrent political and cultural events, this thesis seeks not only to provide a comprehensive English-language monograph of the artist's activities, but also to use this analysis as a case study to discuss broader issues concerning local-translocal relationships in rural art and negotiating urban-rural binary frameworks that persist in contemporary arts discourse.The examination of these kinds of bifurcated structures through the lens of Yamamoto Kanae explores means of dismantling them as the field continues to work towards more nuanced ways of framing global art history.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".