Japanesque
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Japanesque
Example Sentences
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The Nakamise now sells tourist kitsch in the hope of turning a sale or two, the site of the Denkikan holds a Japanesque apartment block with a few impoverished beauty-shop boutiques on the ground floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not seem to be working in the right medium, for I believe his Japanesque landscapes could be far more sympathetically presented in watercolour.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen
As a Cookhamite assured us, "Mr. C—— goes in for the Japanesque;" and he screens the large display-windows intended for cheese, raisins, and potted meats with smiling mandarins and narrow-eyed houris under octopus-like trees.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
In sharp contrast with the former's muscular and broad type of modeling, the latter has a very precise and Japanesque quality of detail modeling which is sometimes a little photographic.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen
"It must be of bricks, wood and stone, separately and in combination; it must be Queen Anne, Gothic, French, Japanesque and classic American, and it must be painted all the colors of an autumn landscape."
From The House that Jill Built after Jack's had proved a failure by Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence)
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