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Essays or compilations © 2003 Judy Shoaf:

How Japanese dolls came to Europe and America

The word "Jap":

Jappy Rhymes with Happy

"Little Japs" and racism--a few literary notes

"Jap" in 19th-century popular usage (citations from Making of America)

Reading Yone Santo on the Making of America site.

A Mirror of Women: The Japanese Woman as Doll in literature

Japanese images and soap advertising

Japanese dolls and Christmas

Japanese dolls in literature and on the stage

Iris's aria about her doll in Mascagni's Iris

Photographs:

Early photos of people with their Japanese dolls

Shirley Temple's Japanese dolls

Babe Ruth with a Japanese doll

and see:  Japanese dolls in literature and on the stage

Postcards:

1904: Japanese dress-up from France (photographic postcards)

Postcards and greeting cards

Christmas postcards and cards

Multicultural Doll Families in postcards

Susan B. Pearse: postcard and other images

Advertising:

"Jap" in product names; Japanese-ness in advertising

Japanese dolls in advertising illustrations

Illustrations showing Japanese dolls in Western contexts:

Japanese dolls in magazine illustration

Japanese dolls in "fine art" prints or original paintings

Alfred Stevens's paintings with Japanese dolls

Glamour and Risqué images added 2004

Japanese dolls in book illustration*

Japanese dolls as heroes of picture books*

Japanese dolls in poems*

*Works illustrated with, or concerned with, Japanese dolls:

Wingy Wing Foo (C. A. D. W., 1880)
The Japanese Doll (George Cooper, 1885) added 2004
A Jappie Chappie and How He Loved a Dollie, by E. L. Shute (1887) revised 10/04
The Japanese Dolls  (Clara S. Dolliver, 1887)

 A Truly Story of My Dolls, by Elizabeth Tucker (1890?)

A Cup of Tea, by Elizabeth Tucker (1892)

Gollywogg's Bicycle Club, by Florence Upton (1895)
The Jap Doll  (Alice C. D. Riley, 1898)
Strange Adventures of Two Little Japs
Dolly and Her Dolls
Only a Jap Dollee, verses by Helen Burnside
From the Land of Sunshine, verses by Clifton Bingham (1898)
The Jappy Doll (Clifton Bingham)
Dolls of Many Lands
Polly's Dollies, by H. Brooke Levering

Baby's Friends

Adventures of a Japanese Doll, by Henry Mayer (1901)

The Six-Inch Admiral, by George Best (1901) added 2004

Jappie and Japina (Richard Hunter, 1902)

Dollie Darlings (ca. 1905)

Live Dolls' House Party, by Josephine Scribner Gates, illus. Virginia Keep (1906)

Jingle of a Jap, by Clara Bell Thurston (1906)
Moving Picture Dollies, by K. Garman, (1908)

Two books with one set of illustrations by Grace Evans (1908)

O'Kissme San, A Doll of Japan (alternative title: Teeny-Weeny Feet), by Harvey Gaskell (1909)
The Poor Dear Dollies, by May Byron, illus. Rosa Petherick (1909)
The Missionary's Daughter (Burges Johnson, 1910)
Whose Dolly Is You? (Burges Johnson)

Humpty Dumpty Toy Book, by Ethel Roskruge

The Japanese Doll (Ah Fan), by Bessie Cahoone Newton, (1912)
Dotty Dolly's Tea Party , by Marguerite L. and Willard C. Wheeler (1914)
Dolls of Many Climes: Japanese  (Jessica Moore, 1914)
Four and Twenty Dollies (also pub. as Play Dollies and Dollies in Happy Land), by Leanora Pease, illus. Ella Dolbear Lee (1914)
Josephine and her Dolls, by Mrs. H. C. Craddock, illus. Honor C. Appleton (1918 etc.)
The Japanese Doll  (Laura Spencer Porter, 1920s?)

Pansy Eyes: A Maid of Japan, by Bessie Toulouse Sprague (1922)

Binkie and the Bell Dolls, by Margaret Widdemer, illus. Hattie Longstreet Price (1923)
Mary's Doll Garden, by Dinkie Dee (1924)
Mimi, Momo, and Miss Tabby Tibb, by Katharine Sturges (1927)
Pierre Pons, by Francis de Miomandre (1927-29?) added 2004

Depictions of Japanese dolls used by Japanese children:

Japanese dolls in "Japan" (postcards and other items)

Japanese dolls in Japanese fairy tales

Miscellaneous items:

Japanese dolls depicted on or incorporated into toys

German jigsaw puzzles

"Little Jap Tea Party" toy set

Japanese crackers

Dollie's Book of Nursery Rhymes display puppet

Japanese dolls or characters in paperdolls

Japanese dolls in popular music

Walt Disney's cartoon "Broken Toys"