japanolatry

Example Sentences

• "THESE three books, each in its own manner and degree, are excellent examples of the Japanolatry characteristic of this rococo age."
• "Mr . Norman is not free from the prevalent Japanolatry. At p. 360 (e.g) Japan did not provoke the late war; at p. 376 she is dubbed a "first class military power"; and at p. 377, one of her buglers blows, apparently for a long time (with a bullet in his chest), till breath fails — which anyone can tell would be an immediate result."
• "The beauty of a Japanese garden is a step to take, and it is a real step, quite as far apart from the vulgar and uneducated Japanolatry of some years since as from the cold contempt into which more recent taste seems to be reacting."
• "Japanolatry in the West coincided with victory in the Sino-Japanese War, and, ten years later, the defeat of Russia."
• "For twenty years his taste confined itself to the fashionable families that married well with Louis XV furniture and to the Japanese wares then in vogue as a result of the decorative rage in France known as Japanolatry."
• "Finally, the complex and multi-dimensional character of any performance gap can be explored further by introducing cash flow per vehicle produced as a third performance measure; this series shows the limits of Japanolatry because, on this measure, average car companies in Japan as well as America have real problems."