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This book is the first thorough account of Frank Lloyd Wright's relationship with Japan and its arts. It presents significant new information on the nature and extent of Wright's formal and philosophical debt to Japanese art and architecture.

Eight primary channels of influence are examined in detail, from Japanese prints to specific individuals and publications, and the evidence of their impact on Wright is illustrated through a mixture of textual and drawn analyses.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments = ⅸ

Forewords = ⅹ

Introduction, The relationship between Wright's work and the traditional art and architecture of Japan as it has been variously perceived since 1900 = 1

1. 'Japanism' and the Boston orientalists, Wright's perception of Japanese art architecture viewed in the context of the Aesthetic Movement and popular nineteenth-century 'Japanism,' and in the light of his personal link with the Boston-based orientalists Edward Morse, Ernest Fenollosa, Arthur Dow, and Kakuzo Okakura = 9

2. Japanese Homes : the Japanese house dissected, The intluence of Edward Morse's detailed analysis of the middle-class Japanese dwelling on Wrights concept of the new American home = 35

3. The Ho-o-den : the temple and the villa married in south Chicago, The impact on the early Prairie House of the Japanese pavilion exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago = 47

4. Fenollosa and the 'organic' nature of Japanese art, The influence of Ernest Fenollosa's aesthetic interpretation of traditional Japanese pictorial art on Wright's perception of this subject = 73

5. Composition : the picture, the plan, and the pattern, as aesthetic line-ideas, The impact of Arthur Dow's graphic interpretation of Ernest Fenollosa's aesthetic theory on Wright's general approach to design = 85

6. The woodblock print and the geometric abstraction of natural, man-made, and social forms, The influence of the woodblock print on Wright's perception of Japan, and its role in exemplifying several of his own 'ofganic' design principles and as a source of architectural ideas, graphic devices, and professional connections = 99

7. Okakura and the social and aesthetic Ideals of the East, The influence on Wright of Kakuzo Okakura's interpretation of the social and aesthetic ideals underlying traditional Japanese art in general and the tea ceremony in particular = 121