Ayelet Zohar is Senior Lecturer of History of Art at Tel Aviv University.Alison J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of the South (Sewanee).

• Introduction. In-Between Temporality and Spatiality: Visual Convergences and Meiji HybridityAyelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller Between Kanji and Hiragana: An Allegorical Reading of the Katakana (Non-) Space Michio Hayashi Modernization as Rejection of Westernization: The Case of Japanese CalligraphyEugenia Bogdanova-Kummer Classical Greece in Japan and Why It Matters: A Postcolonial PerspectiveMichael Lucken Medievalism, Modernity, and Militarism in Imperial JapanOleg Benesch Dinner Table Negotiations: Tableware and the presentation of Japan at the Enryōkan Mary Redfern Imaging Industry: Woodblock Prints, Factory Women, and Sericulture in Meiji JapanAlison J. Miller Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokushō’s Strive for Modern Japanese PaintingKatharina Rode Mural Paintings in late 19th and early 20th century Western-style Public Buildings in JapanEmiko Yamanashi Framing Scenery: A Potential History of Landscape Photography in Colonial HokkaidōAyelet Zohar Colors of Empire: Watercolor in Meiji JapanChinghsin Wu Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Spaces in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair-Weather Clogs, 1914) with Charles Baudelaire’s Flâneur and Walter Benjamin’s Porosity Evelyn Schulz

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