A Dream of Bric-a-Brac: The Nineteenth Century

Louisa Stuart Costello • Supposed to be Sung by the Wife of a Japanese Who Had Been Taken by the Russians to Their Country, 1825

Alexander Rodger • The Devil’s Visit to the Islands of Japan, 1838

C. H. W. • An Ode to the Japanese, 1860

Walt Whitman • The Errand-Bearers, 1860

Anonymous • Society in Japan, 1867

Horace Russell and William Greene • The Japanese Lovers, ca. 1870

Oliver Wendell Holmes • At the Banquet to the Japanese Embassy, 1872

R. H. Horne • Ode to the Mikado of Japan, 1873

Margaret Veley • A Japanese Fan, 1876

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • from Kéramos, 1878

W. S. Gilbert • Two Songs from The Mikado, 1885

William Struthers • The Rejected Japanese Lover, 1887

W. E. Henley • Ballade of a Toyokuni Colour Print, 1888

John Hay • A Dream of Bric-a-Brac, 1890

Anonymous • The Japanese Doll, ca. 1890

Louis Belrose, Jr. • A Japanese Sword, 1891

Rudyard Kipling • Buddha at Kamakura, 1892

Edwin Arnold • Fuji-yama, 1892

Edwin Arnold • The Musmee, 1892

Oliver Herford • Japanesque, ca. 1893

Ernest Fenollosa • Sonnet: Fuji at Sunrise, 1893

Mary McNeill Scott (Mary McNeill Fenollosa) • To a Portrait of a Japanese Princess, 1894

Mary Stockton Hunter • A Japanese Sword Song, 1895

Mrs. Merrill E. Gates • Japanese War Song, 1895

Mae St. John Bramhall • The Japanese “Good-Day,” 1897

Margaret A. Brooks • Japan, the Youngest Born, 1899

Aldis Dunbar • Japaneseque, 1900

Edgar Fawcett • The Yellow Danger, 1900