Japonaiserie

Right, van Gogh: Japonaiserie, 'Flowering Plum Tree' (after Hiroshige), Oil on canvas, 55 Ã 46 cm (21.7 Ã 18.1 in); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Jane Chafin: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: A Luscious -- and Affordable -- Must-Have Art Book Jane Chafin 2011

Right, van Gogh: Japonaiserie, 'Flowering Plum Tree' (after Hiroshige), Oil on canvas, 55 × 46 cm (21.7 × 18.1 in); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Jane Chafin: Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: A Luscious -- and Affordable -- Must-Have Art Book Jane Chafin 2011

It brings to bear on him the grinding weight of the academic art historical apparatus - a machine that records his progress from early and crude imitations of the French Fauves to the flung Japonaiserie of the late Fireworks, an action painting - but the machine is blind and knows nothing of quality.

Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011

Liberty & Company, the famous department store in London's West End shopping district, specialized in Orientalia and Japonaiserie during this period, and many of their designs on display in this collection showcase Japanese influence of clean lines, harmonious juxtaposition of shapes and attention to the forms of nature, such as leaves and other organic forms.

Stories from The Sun 2010

Japonaiserie: The Actor (after Keisai Yeisen) (1888) Oil on canvas

Quazen 2008

Japanese obsessions with the evanescent beauty and sadness of cherry blossoms are well known, and Némirovsky's exquisite lines may be influenced by the Japonaiserie of an earlier era, a literary echo of Van Gogh's cherry trees: "The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through opaque petals; this added something alive to the flower's fragility, to its ethereal quality, something almost human, in the way that human can mean frailty and endurance at the same time."

Wendi L. Adamek: War And Cherry Blossoms Wendi L. Adamek 2011