Miya Itabashi, PhD by thesis, History of Design

The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate the hypothesis that Japanese art as envisaged by the British audience has been the product of a series of appropriations made according to the changing aesthetic ideas, scholastic interests and popular imagination of each period. To test this hypothesis, Itabashi is looking at the reception and appropriation of Japanese prints and printmaking in Britain in the period from the 1890s to 1930s.