Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680 – 1980 Publisher / Abrams filled with super-easy instructions and

filled with super-easy instructions and patterns written for sewists of all skill levels"If you can sew a straight line

collecting passengers and their stories

excitement and bitter disappointments

An important interview with the art critic Pascale Le Thorel allows us to contextualize Alaoui’s encounters with the various artists

From struggles with money and the bitterness of rejection

Imagined Neighbors: Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680 – 1980 Publisher / Abrams filled with super-easy instructions andThis publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid nineteenth century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the late 1600s to the twentieth century pictured China, both as a real place and an imagined promised land. It features three essays by renowned Japanese art historians in addition to more than fifty catalogue entries