The Furthest Goal : Engelbert Kaempfers Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

ISBN-13: 9781873410370 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 232 str.

Beatrice Bodart-Bailey;Derek Massarella;Beatrice Bodart-Bailey

Opis

Kaempfer's The History of Japan was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s and was published in London in 1727; it appeared in a total of ten editions of translations and reprints in the decade that followed - an extraordinary achievement for a work of this kind. It became required reading for all serious students of Japan for over a century, and was even on board Commodore Perry's ship in 1852. Today, it remains compulsory reading for anyone studying the Tokugawa period.

This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, B.M. Bodart-Bailey; Chapter 2 WritingThe History of Japan, B.M. Bodart-Bailey; Chapter 3 The Interpreter Interpreted, Paul van der Velde; Chapter 4 Forgotten Practices of the Past, Carmen Blacker; Chapter 5 The Plants that Carry His Name, Wolfgang Muntschick; Chapter 6 The History ofThe History, Derek Massarella; Chapter 7 Changing the Image, Jörg Schmeißer; Chapter 8 Epilogue, Derek Massarella;

O autorze

Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice; Massarella, Derek