Review of Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan by Chelsea Foxwell and Bradley M. Bailey, Japanese Art Society of America, Yale University Press, 2023, 272 pages

Monika Hinkel is the Convenor of the Arts of Japan and Korea module of the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. Her main research interest is Japanese Woodblock Prints, especially prints of the Meiji period and contemporary interpretations of ukiyo-e. She has published widely on aspects of Japanese art. She was the curator of the 2024 special exhibition Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking, at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. E-mail: mh105@soas.ac.uk.