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Whether the Anglo-Japanese style reflected Gothic temperament or
not, it must be remembered, in any case, that in all things Japanese the
Western eye perceived the Medieval. Therefore in the Japanesque, for the
nineteenth-century mindset, there tended to be an association with the
Gothic. Moreover, this admiration was a two-way, mutual affair. It was, after
all, during this period of European Gothicism that Japan’s eyes were also
opened to the West and with it European art and design.
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Figure 35: E. W. Godwin, Anglo-Japanese cabinet, 1877 – 1880
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