Beschreibung:
This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century.
Part I: The Price of Seclusion - Shirts, Studs and Wash Hand Basins; The Great Exhibition as a Cultural Bridge; Affirmative Action, Abroad and in Japan; Yokohama muki , Japanese Export Ware Part II - In Japan - Maruzen abd the Foreign Book Trade; Western Architecture and Japanese Architects; Christopher Dresser, and Industrial Design; Paintings, Photographs and Prints Part III - In Britain - Japonisme for all; Collecting Japanese Art; Three Painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons; 'The Lovely Flower Land of the Far East', Travel Writing about Japan Part IV - The Commercial Spin Off - Japan British Exhibition, London 1910; Shopping for Japoniserie Part V - Four Bridge Builders - Painter, Poet, Pearl Maker and Potter - Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach