Foreword / Samuel C. Morse
Introduction / Elizabeth Lillehoj
Ch. 1. Terminology and Ideology: Coming to Terms with "Classicism" in Japanese Art-Historical Writing / Melanie Trede
Ch. 2. Tawaraya Sotatsu and the "Yamato-e Revival" / Satoko Tamamushi
Ch. 3. Patrons of Tawaraya Sotatsu and Ogata Korin / Keiko Nakamachi
Ch. 4. Japanese Exemplars for a New Age: Genji Paintings from the Seventeenth-Century Tosa School / Laura W. Allen
Ch. 5. New "Classical" Theme: The One Hundred Poets from Elite to Popular Art in the Early Edo Period / Joshua S. Mostow
Ch. 6. Classical Imagery and Tokugawa Patronage: A Redefinition in the Seventeenth Century / Karen M. Gerhart
Ch. 7. Uses of the Past: Gion Float Paintings as Instruments of Classicism / Elizabeth Lillehoj
Afterword / Quitman Eugene Phillips.