Yesterday I Mention An Art Deco Style Train,

so for today some Zen Deco,

 when Japan started to open up to the West, Europeans were enamoured with the culture, including art,

 

 but influence also travelled the other way,

 

 You can see the influence in a collection of Japanese postcards from the early 20th century, U.S. postcard collector Ken Reed a part of who's collection is here shows how much influence the period had on Japanese postcard designs,

according to Reed, who cautions that he’s “not a scholar,” the European Art Nouveau aesthetic found its way to the Land of the Rising Sun via a group of Japanese artists who attended the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. “They brought Art Nouveau back with them and incorporated it into what was happening in Japan.” you can see more of his card collection here.