This course considers the arts and architectures of Japan in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), a time when the relocation of political power, the establishment of peace, and a strong mercantile economy transformed the production, purpose, and meaning of the arts and architecture of Japan. Topics to be included: the construction of the city of Edo as a map of a larger social order; the place of the patron in established painting traditions (Kano and Tosa styles); the reinvention of classical traditions (Sôtatsu and Kôrin); scholar painters and their subjects (Bunjinga/Nanga); the importation and transformation of Western styles (Rangaku); the "floating world" of Japanese prints (Ukiyo-e); and others.