Recently I’ve become interested in nineteenth century japonisme, a strain of ”Japan-fever” that Akane Kawakami, author of Travellers’ Visions: French Literary Encounters With Japan, 1887-2004, describes as a “passing Parisian fad [which] became an important part of the creative imagination of major artists, composers and writers of the period.” One of these writers, French naval officer Pierre Loti, became widely popular for [...]
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