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Abstract From the 1950s onwards, and even more so in the 60s and 70s, the architectural works of such pre-war tenors as Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra were considered to be under Japanese influence and associated with Japonism. Taking advantage of …

Abstract Tanizaki Jun.ichirō's Éloge de l'ombre and Roland Barthes' L'Empire des signes seem to postulate the existence of two stable, antagonistic cultural systems: Japan and the East on one side, and the West on the other. Each would have its own …

Abstract The posterity of Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème (1888) extends well beyond the 19th century . Foujita's 1926 illustrations gave it a new lease of life. A year later, the famous Japanese artist from Montparnasse illustrated L'Honorable Partie …

Abstract The reception of Japanese cinema in Western countries is late compared to historical Japonism. Very few films were shown in Europe before 1951, when Kurosawa Akira's Rashōmon won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and the following year …

Abstract How are we to interpret the many allusions and borrowings from Far Eastern cultures, and Japan in particular, in French painting of the 1950s and 1960s? After an overview of the Parisian scene, we'll focus on the work of Jean Degottex …

Abstract Japan was ostracized as a nation after the Second World War, and one of the ways it paid for its defeat was in the way it was portrayed in the comic strips that flourished in post-war France and around the world. Over the course of a generation, …

Abstract It was at the Venice International Theater Festival in 1954, then in Paris in 1957 at the Théâtre des Nations, that the first European performances of nō theater took place, until then only known through a few translations of librettos, at the …

Abstract After the Second World War, interest in Japanese culture in the Western world resumed on the basis of an extremely unequal balance of power. As part of a re-establishment of Japan's image centered on Japanese-American relations, Japanese fashion, …

Abstract In France and elsewhere, contemporary Japan crystallizes a whole imaginary world of deviance. Often caricatured as a country lax on pedo-criminality and the objectification of women, it arouses a mixture of attraction and repulsion that is highly …