High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Japonism, or Japonisme, the original French term, was first used in 1872 by Jules Claretie in his book L`Art Francais en 1872 and by Philippe Burty (1830–1890) in Japanisme III. La Renaissance Literaire et Artistique in the same year. Japanism might be considered a general term for the influence of the arts of Japan on those of the West, whereas in France Japonisme is applied to such influence and is in addition the name of a specfic French style. In England objects influenced by japanism have been termed Anglo-Japanese, from as early as 1851, according to Widar Halen in Christopher Dresser, 1990, p.33.