The Japanese Influence in America

THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN AMERICA is the first major book to explore the historic background and define the impact of Japanese ideas, aesthetic ideals, and art forms upon the United States. Contrary to the prevalent notion that the current vogue for things Japanese is a relatively recent development, Clay Lancaster demonstrates conclusively, and with copious pictorial evidence, that Japan has played an important part in American cultural life for the greater part of a century. Furthermore the in