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While she was absorbed in beginning the mighty task of re-adjusting her ideas of taste and the details of her domestic environment, which, after a few years of painful struggle with the impracticabilities of Eastlake mediævalism, was to result in the existing combination of Chippendale and the Japanesque, she felt that it would be a relief to divest herself of superfluous cares.

The food came, and the bearers returned and casually reported to the Honorable Presidente that his honorable reinforcements would soon be along, much to the honorable joy—to make the thing a little Japanesque—of the president of the honorable republic.

“I have 302 nothing to confess, but if I had, I should be Japanesque and keep it to myself.”

The most moving moments, however, came from the musicians, particularly when Chicago singer-pianist Yoko Noge led her thunderous Japanesque ensemble in sounds that fearlessly merged East and West, ancient and modern, simple and sophisticated.

But her Japanesque ensemble – staffed by veteran Chicago jazz and blues instrumentalists – built dramatically on her work.