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1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The frigate Pallada / Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov -- The capital of the tycoon: a narrative of a three years' residence in Japan / Sir Rutherford Alcock -- A diplomat in Japan / Ernest Mason Satow -- The Mikado's empire / William Elliot Griffis -- Promenades Japonaises Tokio-Nikko, Félix Régamey, Japon / Emile Etienne Guimet -- Poems on miscellaneous subjects from Japan / Huang Zunxian -- Unbeaten tracks in Japan / Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop -- The soul of the Far East / Percival Lowell -- Japoneries d'automne / Pierre Loti -- Things Japanese / Basil Hall Chamberlain -- Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan / Lafcadio Hearn -- A diplomatist's wife in Japan : letters from home to home / Lady Fraser -- Allerlei aus Japan / Ludwig Riess -- Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan / Erwin von Bälz (Baelz) -- Al-shams al-mushriqa (Rising sun) / Muṣṭafā Kāmil Pasha -- Epochs of Chinese and Japanese art: an outline history of east Asiatic design / Ernest Francisco Fenollosa -- Japan day by day 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83 / Edward Sylvester Morse -- Nationalism / Rabindranath Tagore -- Ó-yoné e ko-haru / Wenceslau de Moraes -- L'oiseau noir dans le Soleil levant / Paul Claudel -- Theory of Japan / Dai Jitao -- A personal view of Japan / Zhou Zuoren -- Living in Tokyo / Lady Sansom -- Das japanische Haus und sein Leben / Bruno Taut -- Ten years in japan: a contemporary record drawn from the diaries and private and official papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932-1942 / Joseph Clark Grew -- The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture / Ruth Benedict -- From Bataan to Tokyo, diary of a Filipino student in wartime Japan 1943-1944 / Leocadio de Asis -- Haiku / Reginald Horace Blyth -- The Western world and Japan : a study in the interaction of European and Asiatic culture / Sir George Bailey Sansom -- City life in Japan : a study of Tokyo ward / Ronald Philip Dore -- The Japanese discovery of Europe : Honda Toshiaki and other discoverers 1720-1830 / Donald Keene -- The Japanese tradition in British and American literature / Earl Miner -- Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration / Marius B. Jansen -- L'empire des signes / Roland Barthes -- The Japanese / Edwin Oldfather Reischauer -- Ten no hate ni ikuru to mo (Even though I live at the end of the skies) / Kim So-un -- The compact culture: the Japanese tradition of smaller is better / Lee O-young -- Low city, high city : Tokyo from Edo to the earthquake / Edward Seidensticker -- La mort volontaire au Japon. / Maurice Pinguet. |
| Access |
Open access. GW5XE |
| Summary |
"This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers' discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer us a broad spectrum of contents, reflecting a variety of attitudes toward Japan. The works were written during the period from the 1850s to the 1980s, a timespan during which Japan became, in stages, more open to the outside world after a long isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate. From the perspective of "Japanology," one can discern three distinct periods of rising interest in the country from abroad. The first tide of such interest came shortly after the opening of Japan, when various foreign travelers, including those who could not be included in this book, came over and wrote down their impressions of the country -- which was, for them, a land of mystery and mystique, which had just opened its doors to them. The second wave arose at the beginning of the twentieth century, just after the Russo-Japanese War, when Japan again generated a remarkable surge of interest as a "miracle" in Asia that had pulled off the wondrous feat of defeating a white superpower. The third wave was more recent, which took place from the late 1960s to the 1980s, a period of high economic growth when the "miracle" of Japan's remarkable economic recovery from the defeat of World War II attracted enthusiastic and curious attention from the outside world once again. It is not the intention of this book to directly highlight such historical transitions, but these forty-two brilliant mirrors (forty-one chapters, including forty-two discourses), even when looked in casually, provide us with unexpected insights and various perspectives"-- Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 31, 2023). |
| Local Note |
Springer Nature Springer Nature - SpringerLink eBooks - Fully Open Access |
| Subject |
Japan -- Description and travel -- History.
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Japan -- In literature.
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Literature
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Travel
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Japan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Added Author |
Saeki, Shōichi, 1922-2016, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrwXqfbKk8xYmjvF8rTHC
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Haga, Tōru, 1931-2020, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpJj9RQXBXt84PT6TtYfq
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Masterpieces on Japan by foreign authors. Singapore: Springer, [2023] 9811998523 (OCoLC)1360297326 |
| ISBN |
9789811998539 electronic book |
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9811998531 electronic book |
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9789811998522 hardcover |
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9811998523 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-981-19-9853-9 doi |
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