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(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Takashina Erika
The European End-of-Century Aesthetic and Japan Japanese painter Yamamoto Hosui's stay in Paris over the nine and a half years following the Paris Expo in 1878 was instrumental in spurring on a mounting interest in the Orient and Japanese art that had begun mainly through the Expo, private art collections and publications on the topic. Gaining the favor of Judith Gautier, the daughter of poet Theophile Gautier, Hosui painted a mural in her villa in the summer of 1883. In addition, his solo exhibition in 1885, evidently on Judith's recommendation and advice, and the publication ...