Japonism

Japonism (also in French Japonisme and Japonaiserie) is the influence of Japanese art on Western, primarily French, artists. The art that originated from this influence is called japonesque.

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While American intellectuals maintained that Edo prints were a vulgar art form, unique to the period and distinct from the refined, religious, national heritage of Japan known as Yamato-e (大和絵, pictures from the Yamato period, e.g. Zen masters Sesshu and Shubun), ukiyo-e, Japanese wood-block prints, became a source of inspiration for Art Nouveau, cubism and many European impressionist painters in France.

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French: French can refer to more than one article:...

Japanese art: Japanese art, works of art produced in Japan from the beginnings of human habitation there, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present....

Western: The word western is an adjective used to refer to things that are in the West. It also has a number of more specific meanings:...