关键词: 《沪吴日记》, 游记, 中日民间美术交流, 艺术品交易

Abstract:

The Journal in Shanghai and Suzhou which is collected in Cabinet Library of Japan was thebeginning of Japanese travelogue to Shanghai. Okada Kōsho recorded the experience and artistic exchangein his Chinese trip in 1872 in Chinese characters for the purpose of enhancing his artistic cultivation andcalling on famous artists literary men and old friends in Nagasaki he interviewed some collectorspainters and calligraphers in his trip. Through analyzing his interviews and contact with Chinese antiquedealers collectors Japanese painters residing in Shanghai calligraphers and painters of ShanghaiSchool it can give a glimpse of the cultural and economic landscape of the grass-roots intellectuals inShanghai Suzhou and the surrounding areas. At the same time it also refracts the essence that Japaneseconducted economic and art exchanges in folk in China in the 1870s which were in the form of culturalinterventions art and antique investment. Further this art trip was an important exchange in the earlystage of Chinese and Japanese folk art renaissance in modern times after these two countries restarteddiplomacy. This art trip is a result of some internal and external factors including responses to the impactof Western civilization to re-acquaint the 􀆵old and new knowledge with each other the huge economicinterests of antique painting and calligraphy and Shanghai􀆳s open environment and other factors.