Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture

This pioneering anthology also demonstrates how Japan has espoused the modern Western fascination with its arts and culture to create and promote its national cultural identity.

Noriko MURAI is professor of modern Japanese art history at Sophia University, Tokyo. Her publications in English include Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia (2009), Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900 (2014), and Japan in the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2022).