The Impact Of Japonisme On European Art

United States, a time called the Meiji Period caused newly learned ideas to change the Japanese

vessels. For a time, Japanese officials refused to speak with Perry, but eventually they accepted letters from U.S. President Millard Fillmore, making the United States the first Western nation to establish relations with Japan since it was declared closed to foreigners in 1683.

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The Japanese empire was in great power by this time period, and they thought themselves as the king of the East Asian race. Japan, the “old order”, also believed that some day Europe and America would take over their power and become the “new orders”(Doc A). Japan was one

In the 19th century, technological improvements enabled many European nations to enlarge their power and have greater impact on other parts of the world. Those impacts are clearly demonstrated in the book Abina and the Important Men and the source Fifty Years of New Japan. Abina and the Important Men views on how a young woman from Gold Coast, West Africa in the 1870s failed to declare her own freedom in a local British dominated court. The source Fifty Years of New Japan demonstrates how Japan had modernized in fifty years with adoption of European cultural practices. Because the Gold Coast was a crown colony of the British empire, change made by European culture and power was in favor of the interest of Britain. Indigenous people respond to such changes differently based on their different social status. Japan, on the other hand, was independently adopting western cultural practices for modernization, so Japan was able to better improve herself by learning about the Western Civilization.

Japan had rapid economic development during this period. In this period, Japanese society behaved very much like

From 1639, Japan kept control on emigration of its people to Europe and to its colonies. But soon after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853, trade of gunships started between the United States and Japan (USA.gov). This exposed Japanese to another culture, which had an impact on their life. This resulted in a great change of social life in Japan because life in America represented a model way and motivated Japanese to migrate there.

Both Japan and China lie in the East of Asia. ‪To a certain extent，Japan and China own similar culture background, in the Confucian Cultural Circle. But when we look back into the modern history development, Japan and China made quite different decisions when facing the western countries’ aggression. China suffered the invasion in 1840 after the first Sino-British War. Japan was in a similar situation in the black boat incident in 1853, the Opium War made the West began to pay attention to East Asia. From then on, Japan began to face the western culture. ‬The reactions, as well as the result of Japan and China were quite disparate. This article wants to discuss what lead to the difference. ‬‬

This could be attributed to the different cultures between Japan and other East Asian cultures

Japan’s culture developed in a rapid pace compared some other parts of the world in the Heian era. An example would be The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu. Her novel gained popularity during this period. Jumping through time from there, in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, a great Japanese daimyo by the name of Oda Nobunaga wanted to unite Japan under one sword. One of the cool events

Japan, of course, has had more time than the United States to work out its unique interpretation of the older Chinese culture, but both countries reflect their cultural ancestry.

Hence, the Japanese culture was not position in serious public discourse. No one seemed to care about the cultural contamination at that time. Even today, not many people worry much about it. Nowadays, the Japanese culture signifies popularity, fashion, and update. Chinese people, especially the youths, mostly admire the Japanese culture. I have grown up in an environment where watching Japanese cartoon, reading Japanese comics, and playing Japanese games is my daily event. People who are closely tied with the Japanese culture are considered to be fashionable and up-to-date. Japanese comics, games, signers, clothes, etc. are tremendously popular among the Chinese youths. Since the Chinese official critics did not reject the Japanese culture as the Europeans did, Chinese people who dislike the Japanese culture often suffer and feel isolated. Under peer pressure, they have no choices but to accept the Japanese culture. They are different to those who disliked Dallas because they do not get a sense of superiority from the Chinese official critics. Understanding the Japanese culture is heavily charged with ideological meanings and pleasure, and yet the masses are able to focus on the merely the pleasure of the Japanese culture, while they tend to ignore the negative ideological meaning. This is done by the Japanese culture industry because it is necessary to hide the “bad parts” of the Japanese culture. That is, the Japanese are only

Before Japan opened its borders to western trade and cultural exchange, Europe pondered the unfamiliar Asian lifestyle. The Romantic movement in Europe provides context for this exoticism, or

Johnson, C. (1982). MITI and the Japanese miracle. 1st ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

The decade of 1970 brought another change in the cultural diplomacy of Japan, this time in response to the rise an anti-Japanese feeling in Asia. The critiques stimulated Japan to strengthen his cultural activities in Asia. Moreover, establishment Japan Foundation offices in most of the countries of Southeast Asia they were a clear evidence of the new policy, in order to improve the knowledge and Japanese interest in the Southeast Asian region.