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(★)(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-one brilliant mirrors (forty-one chapters, including forty-one discourses), even when looked in casually, provide us with unexpected insights and various perspectives.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●Ivan A. Goncharov ´A Voyage to Japan´ (Included in ´The Frigate Pallada, 1858´)(Naoto Tsuchiya) ●Rutherford Alcock ´The Capital of the Tycoon´ (1863)(Akiko Ohta) ●Ernest Mason Satow ´A Diplomat in Japan´ (1921)(Yoshihiro Ohsawa) ●William E. Griffis ´The Mikado´s Empire´ (1876)(Yuzo Ota) ●Emile E. Guimet ´Promenades Japonaises : Tokio-Nikko (1880)´ and Felix Regamey ´Japon (Nihon sobyoo kikoo, 1903)´ (Motoko Sato) ●Huang Zunxian ´Riben zashi shi (Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects from Japan)´ (1879)(Ken-ichi Kamigaito) ●Isabella Bird ´Unbeaten Tracks in Japan´ (1880)(Takayo Kano) ●Percival Lowell ´The Soul of the Far East´ (1888)(Shooichi Saeki) ●Pierre Loti ´Japoneries d´Automne (Autumn Japaneries)´ (1889)(Hideharu Suzuki) ●Basil Hall Chamberlain ´Things Japanese´ (1890)(Hiromi Kawashima) ●Lafcadio Hearn ´Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan´ (1894)(Yoko Makino) ●Lady Fraser ´A Diplomatist´s Wife in Japan : Letters from Home to Home´ (1899)(Takayo Kano) ●Ludwig Riess ´Allerlei aus Japan (Miscellaneous Things from Japan)´ (1905)(Naoichi Naka) ●Erwin von Balz(Baelz) ´Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan (Awakening Japan : The Diary of a German Doctor)´ (1876-1905)(Naoichi Naka) ●Mustafa Kamil ´al-Shams al-Mushriqa (The Rising Sun)´ (1904)(Hideaki Sugita) ●Ernest F. Fenollosa ´Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art : An Outline History of East Asiatic Design´ (1921)(Akiko Murakata) ●Edward S. Morse ´Japan Day by Day, 1877, 1878-1879, 1882-1883´ (1917)(Yuzo Ota) ●Rabindranath Tagore ´Nationalism´ (1917)(Yoshihiro Ohsawa) ●Wenceslau de Moraes ´O-Yone e Ko-Haru (OYone and Koharu)´ (1932)(Takayo Kano) ●Paul Claudel ´L´Oiseau noir dans le Soleil levant (The Black Bird in the Rising Sun)´ (1927)(Takashi Naito) ●Dai Jitao ´Theory of Japan´ (1928)(Hideaki Sasaki) ●Zhou Zuoren ´A Personal View of Japan (I-IV)´ (1935-1937)(Hideaki Sugita) ●Katharine Sansom ´Living in Tokyo´ (1936)(Miharu Okubo) ●Eugen Herrigel ´Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens (Zen in the Art of Archery)´ (1936)(Akiko Tsukamoto) ●Bruno Taut ´Das japanische Haus und sein Leben (The Japanese House ans Its Life)´ (1936)(Kimiko Mochida) ●Joseph C. Grew ´Ten Years in Japan´ (1944)(Kei Ushimura) ●Ruth Benedict ´The Chrysanthemum and the Sword´ (1944)(Takaki Okubo) ●Leocadio de Asis ´From Bataan to Tokyo, Diary of a Filipino Student in Wartime Japan 1943-1944´ (1944)(Ken-ichi Kamigaito) ●Reginald H. Blyth ´Haiku´ (1949-52)(Koichi Sembokuya) ●George B. Sansom ´The Western World and Japan´ (1950)(Mitsutani Margaret) ●Ronald P. Dore ´City Life in Japan´ (1958)(Yukiko Aoki) ●Donald Keene ´The Japanese Discovery of Europe --Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers´ (1952)(Tooru Haga) ●Earl Miner ´The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature´ (1958)(Takaki Okubo) ●Marius B. Jansen ´Sakamoto Ryooma and the Meiji Restoration´ (1961)(Tooru Haga) ●Roland Barthes ´L´empire des signes´ (1970)(Yasuo Kobayashi) ●Carmen Blacker ´The Catalpa Bow´ (1975)(Yukiko Aoki) ●Edwin Reischauer ´The Japanese´ (1977)(Shooichi Saeki) ●Kim So-oon ´Ten no hate ni ikuru tomo (Even Though I Live at the End of the Sky)´ (1968)(Ken-ichi Kamigaito) ●Lee O-young ´Smaller Is Better : Japan´s Mastery of the Miniature´ (1982)(Tooru Haga) ●Edward Seidensticker ´Low City, High City : Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake : How the Shogun´s Ancient Capital Became a Great Modern City, 1867-1923´ (Tokyo Shitamachi Yamanote 1867-1923)(Shooichi Saeki) ●Maurice Pinguet ´La mort volontaire au Japon (Voluntary Death in Japan)´ (1984)(Yasuo Kobayashi) ●Epilogue) |
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