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*''Born: [[1831]]''
*''Died: [[1892]]''
Gottfried Wagener was an ''[[oyatoi gaikokujin]]'' hired by the [[Meiji government]] to help train and otherwise prepare Japanese artisans for participation in [[World's Fairs]].
He accompanied a group of some twenty Japanese artisans to the [[1873 Vienna World's Fair]], and then returned to Japan, where he helped artisans prepare for the [[Centennial Exposition|1876 Philadelphia World's Fair]], and for Domestic Industrial Expositions in [[1877]] and [[1881]].
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==References==
*Jennifer Harris, "'Odd and Bizarre': The Export of Japanese Aesthetics to Nineteenth-Century Australia," in Harris and Tets Kimura (eds.), ''Exporting Japanese Aesthetics'', Brighton: Sussex Academic Press (2020), 44.
[[Category:Meiji Period|Wagener]]
[[Category:Foreigners|Wagener]]
*''Died: [[1892]]''
Gottfried Wagener was an ''[[oyatoi gaikokujin]]'' hired by the [[Meiji government]] to help train and otherwise prepare Japanese artisans for participation in [[World's Fairs]].
He accompanied a group of some twenty Japanese artisans to the [[1873 Vienna World's Fair]], and then returned to Japan, where he helped artisans prepare for the [[Centennial Exposition|1876 Philadelphia World's Fair]], and for Domestic Industrial Expositions in [[1877]] and [[1881]].
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==References==
*Jennifer Harris, "'Odd and Bizarre': The Export of Japanese Aesthetics to Nineteenth-Century Australia," in Harris and Tets Kimura (eds.), ''Exporting Japanese Aesthetics'', Brighton: Sussex Academic Press (2020), 44.
[[Category:Meiji Period|Wagener]]
[[Category:Foreigners|Wagener]]