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| | The Emergence of Japan as a Western Text, 2 |
 | | In July 1853 when Matthew Perry arrived with four men-of-war at the harbour of Uraga to demand the opening of Japan to American trade, few countries were as indefinitely formed in the Western imagination. |
| | The perfumes that poured from the box newly opened were copious indeed, and soon were to be diffused throughout the aesthetic landscape of Western Europe and the United States, with effects considerable and wide ranging. |
| | In the first half-century following Perry’s arrival at Uraga these would be felt most keenly in the decorative and fine arts, but by the second they would be conspicuous in disparate and surprising fields, architecture, interior design, fashion, dance, popular and avant-garde theatre, stage design, music, landscape gardening, ceramics, religious studies, and literature, among others. |
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