| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - French writer Pierre Loti???s wildly popular 1887 novel, Madame Chrysanth??me, largely cemented Western perceptions of Japan and, in turn, of Japanese women. (See our abridged timeline of the Madame Chrysanth??me/Madame Buttefly archetype here.) The book is a semiautobiographical tale of a naval officer who travels to Nagasaki and takes a temporary wife???a woman who is painted as a plaything, ano
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