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The Politics of Painting: Fascism & Japanese Art during the Second World War by A. Ikeda Musical Instrument the lacquer pools darkly inAn incisive study of non battle paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received scant scholarly attention relative to more overtly militarist imagery. Ikeda examines the work of four prominent artists Yokoyama Taikan, Yasuda Yukihiko, Uemura Shen, and Fujita Tsuguharu through the framework of Japanese fascism, demonstrating how their seemingly traditional paintings of Mount Fuji, historical samurai, beautiful women, and