Japanese+Bazaar

=Japanese Bazaar= Japan is an island country located in East Asia. Once very private, the United States Navy forcerd Japan open to the outside world with the Convention of Kanagawa. This allowed Japan to adapt to different cultures ideas and influenced Japan to adopt Western political, judicial, and military institutions. This was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. This restoration transformed Japan into an industrialized world power. Emperor Meiji influenced social events, like the Columbian Exposition. They added to the progress of the transition to be a more modern country.



Japan had a thriving economic system based on: All of which were present at the Columbian Exchange of 1893. It is also thought that many of the items were counterfeit
 * silk (clothing, shoes, material)
 * bronze and laquer work
 * fans and screens
 * vases
 * figures of mythological characters
 * articles of bric-a-brac



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