I find it so difficult to take pictures of temples in Japan. They are all extremely beautiful and thus all totally over photographed. When shooting I always feel that someone else has taken the exact same shot as me and probably better. Its tough not to fill the "Gaijin temple photographer" boots, but when things are this beautiful its difficult not to just snap away. www.eastendaperture.co.uk www.japanorama.co.uk

Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1854 opened the country's borders to Western commerce. Within a few years, Western designers and artists, inspired by imported Japanese objects, began to interpret nature from a new perspective. Among the most innovative designers to adopt "Japonisme," as the phenomenon became known, was Eugène Rousseau. Initially, he specialized in ceramics, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s, Rousseau produced designs for glass manufactured by Appert Frères in Clichy. At the 1878 Exposition Universelle, he exhibited some remarkable examples of glass produced in collaboration with the glass factory of Appert Frères. In this instance, the image of the carp in the swirling waters was taken from an "ukiyo-e" print in Hokusai's "Manga," a series of woodblock prints based on the artist's sketches of nature.

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