This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century.

At present Olive is fellow (Overseas) Fukuzawa Memorial Centre, Keio University, Tokyo, jaoan. She is also Associate Editor of teh new Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University press) with responsibility for Nineteenth Century East Asian entries.

Part I: The Price of Seclusion - Shirts, Studs and Wash Hand Basins; The Great Exhibition as a Cultural Bridge; Affirmative Action, Abroad and in Japan; Yokohama muki , Japanese Export Ware Part II - In Japan - Maruzen abd the Foreign Book Trade; Western Architecture and Japanese Architects; Christopher Dresser, and Industrial Design; Paintings, Photographs and Prints Part III - In Britain - Japonisme for all; Collecting Japanese Art; Three Painters, Menpes, Hornel, Brangwyn, and their patrons; 'The Lovely Flower Land of the Far East', Travel Writing about Japan Part IV - The Commercial Spin Off - Japan British Exhibition, London 1910; Shopping for Japoniserie Part V - Four Bridge Builders - Painter, Poet, Pearl Maker and Potter - Kyosai, Binyon, Mikimoto and Leach