v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. = JAPANIZE.
1899. F. Victor Dickins, in Eng. Hist. Rev., April, 224, note. Many place-names all over Japan are of Ainu origin, japonised.
So Japonism, Japonizing action or practice; following of the Japanese fashion.
1890. Sat. Rev., 29 March, 380/1. Cockney Japonism, applying an impossible Fuji-no Yama on a ground of saffron.
