This book contains foundational studies of various modernities in Japanese art published since 1986 by John Clark. His articles address modern Japanese print history, modern Japanese aesthetics, the history of Japanese 'Western-style' painting including the avant-garde, the relation of art and foreign aggression, and the post World War II development of critical art, as well as post-modernism. Some of these essays which were previously published in French and Japanese appear here in English for the first time. This book forms a pair with the author's Modernities of Chinese Art