This propaganda by Japanese fine artists served not to only show Japanese dressed in Western clothing - rather they were manifestos with suggestions on how best the Oriental could subsume the Occidental. It conveyed through faithfully recorded details how the: [westernized] dress,behaviour code,manner of conduct,art,fashion,[intimate] lifestyle,leisure could be successfully adopted.
These images carried multiple stratifications of code and information for those to understand the unfamiliar other.
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