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set designer/artist website, she does some really cool stuff, check out the cello and the cheeky elegant smoke screen.
http://www.loveannajames.com/home.html
http://www.loveannajames.com/home.html
Nov. 2nd, 2011
As I only have these inter-library loan books for one time (you can't renew)
Daughter is home sick with a stomach thing, still washing out all the bedding. I'm glad it waited until after Halloween, hopefully it won't run through the house.
Y'all take care!
Daughter is home sick with a stomach thing, still washing out all the bedding. I'm glad it waited until after Halloween, hopefully it won't run through the house.
Y'all take care!
*Victorian Women in Meiji Japan*
the West being 'rational, developed, humane, superior, vs the Orient which is abberrant, undeveloped, inferior, with the exception of Japan - which was viewed as a closed, medieval society, picturesque and unthreatening. In the early 17th century, Japanese were very active in foreign trade.
Before 1853 Japanese prints and paintings were not as well known as laquerware, Englebert Kamempfer wrote The History of Japan with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-1692 which became the European byword for Japan for the next two hundred years, into the 19th century. Kamenmpfer thought the Japanese superior to the Chinese, and impression which lasted.
Sir Hans Sloane was a great collector of Japanese art.
the Enlightenment traveller was sober, analytical and philosophical, whereas the Romantic traveller sought experiences which were intense, unique and always for the first time, a sense of Japan being unsullied, retaining a child like innocence appealed to the Victorians, Japanese according to Henry Morely have original and thinking minds, a dash of Asiactic fierceness and are generous, joyous, sympathetic.
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the West being 'rational, developed, humane, superior, vs the Orient which is abberrant, undeveloped, inferior, with the exception of Japan - which was viewed as a closed, medieval society, picturesque and unthreatening. In the early 17th century, Japanese were very active in foreign trade.
Before 1853 Japanese prints and paintings were not as well known as laquerware, Englebert Kamempfer wrote The History of Japan with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-1692 which became the European byword for Japan for the next two hundred years, into the 19th century. Kamenmpfer thought the Japanese superior to the Chinese, and impression which lasted.
Sir Hans Sloane was a great collector of Japanese art.
the Enlightenment traveller was sober, analytical and philosophical, whereas the Romantic traveller sought experiences which were intense, unique and always for the first time, a sense of Japan being unsullied, retaining a child like innocence appealed to the Victorians, Japanese according to Henry Morely have original and thinking minds, a dash of Asiactic fierceness and are generous, joyous, sympathetic.
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