A. Critical and Comparative Studies

69. Kodama, Sanehide. America no japonisme (American Japonisme). Tokyo: Chûôkôronshakan, 1995.

Kodama’s knowledgeable study of manifestations of Japonisme in American fashion, art, and society traces the milieu in which American writers have come to know of Japan, and includes a chapter about the effects of knowledge of Japan in American literature. ‘America bungaku no naka no Nippon’ (Japan in American literature) addresses the incorporation of Japanese subjects in the writing of Crapsey (see CA4), Longfellow (see CA1), Lowell, Pound, and others.