The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
A cultural history of the late nineteenth-century encounter between the United States and Japan, focusing on artistic and intellectual exchanges.
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The Great Wave explores the artistic and intellectual exchanges that took place between the United States and Japan during the Gilded Age.
Christopher Benfey examines how American writers, artists, and collectors responded to Japanese art and culture as Japan opened to the West.
The book situates these encounters within the broader historical context of modernization and cross-cultural influence.
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