The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

An incisive study of cultural identity and the implications--good and bad--of cultural cross-pollination describes the historical and cultural reciprocity that existed in the era following the Civil War between the United States and Japan, a country looking to reinvent itself as a cosmopolitan modern state. Reprint. 14,000 first printing.