Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-232) and index.
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Part Part I The price of seclusion -- chapter 1 Shirts, studs and wash hand basins -- chapter 2 The Great Exhibition as a cultural bridge -- chapter 3 Affirmative action, abroad and in Japan -- chapter 4 Yokohama muki -- Japanese export ware -- part Part II In Japan -- chapter 5 Maruzen and the foreign book trade -- chapter 6 Western architecture and Japanese architects -- chapter 7 Christopher Dresser and industrial design -- chapter 8 Paintings, photographs and prints -- part Part III In Britain -- chapter 9 Japonisme for all -- chapter 10 Collecting Japanese art -- chapter 11 Three painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons -- chapter 12 'The lovely flower land of the Far East' -- Travel writing about Japan -- part Part IV The commercial spin-off -- chapter 13 The Japan British Exhibition, London, 1910 -- chapter 14 Shopping for Japonoiserie -- part Part V Four bridge builders -- chapter 15 Painter, poet, pearl-maker and potter -- Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach.