The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
In The Great Wave, Christopher Benfey explores the encounter between Gilded Age America and nineteenth-century Japan. Through the lives of unconventional figures and the era’s fascination with Japanese culture, the book traces a formative period of cultural exchange as Japan opened to a rapidly changing world.
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Christopher Benfey’s The Great Wave examines the cultural relationship between Gilded Age America and nineteenth-century Japan.
The book brings together Japanese eccentrics, American misfits, and the artistic and historical forces surrounding Japan’s opening to the outside world.
With its focus on cross-cultural encounters, the narrative considers how people and ideas moved between two societies during a period of significant change.
This is a work of history and cultural interpretation for readers interested in Japan, America, art, and the connections between them.
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