How Northern Europeans interpreted Japan

After Japan opened up to the West in the mid-19th century, its ceramics, fans and textiles became highly fashionable and were frequently depicted in European portraits and interior scenes. A new show at the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) in Copenhagen looks specifically at how the influence carried in the Nordic countries. The exhibition, titled Japanomania in the North, 1875-1918 (19 January-23 April) argues that most Nordic artists regarded Japanese art and craft as a way to look at and under