Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822

ISBN-13: 9780415546713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 284 str.

Titsingh Isaac Screech Timon

Opis

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then settled in Paris where he devoted himself to compiling translations of prime Japanese texts. It is one of the most exciting anthologies of the period and reveals the almost unknown world of eighteenth-century Japan, discussing politics, history, poetry and rituals. The Illustrations of Japan appeared posthumously in 1821-1822 in English, French and Dutch. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in nearly two centuries

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns  Introduction: Before the Tokugawa   2. Essays on Japanese Civilisation  On Legal Suicide  On Japanese Poetry  The Character of the Japanese People  3. Historical Observations  Secret Diary of Issac Titsingh  Titsingh’s Philosophical Discourse

O autorze

Isaac Titsingh, TimonScreech