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Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 written by Donald Keene and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1969-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that could be resolved only by the opening of the country of the West. The century and more included by the two dates was a most important period in Japanese history, when intellectuals, rebelling at the isolation of their country, desperately sought knowledge from abroad. The amazing energy and enthusiasm of men like Honda Toshiaki made possible the spectacular changes in Japan, which are all too often credited to the arrival of Commodore Perry. The author chose Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821) as his central figure. A page from any one of Honda's writings suffices to show that with him one has entered a new age, that of modern Japan. One finds in his books a new spirit, restless, curious and receptive. There is in him the wonder at new discoveries, the delight in widening horizons. Honda took a kind of pleasure even in revealing that Japan, after all, was only a small island in a large world. To the Japanese who had thought of Chinese civilization as being immemorial antiquity, he declared that Egypt's was thousands of years older and far superior. The world, he discovered, was full of wonderful things, and he insisted that Japan take advantage of them. Honda looked at Japan as he thought a Westerner might, and saw things that had to be changed, terrible drains on the country's moral and physical strength. Within him sprang the conviction that Japan must become one of the great nations of the world.
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe: Honda Toshiaki and Discoveries, 1720-1798 by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe: Honda Toshiaki and Discoveries, 1720-1798 written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe, Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers, 1720-1798, by Donald Keene by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe, Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers, 1720-1798, by Donald Keene written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe by : Donald Keene
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe written by Donald Keene and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Europe; Honda Toshiaki and Other Disvocerers. 1720-1798 by : Keene, Donald
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Europe; Honda Toshiaki and Other Disvocerers. 1720-1798 written by Keene, Donald and published by London, Routledge. This book was released on 1952 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 by : Michael Cooper
Download or read book The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590 written by Michael Cooper and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. The group set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years. The purpose of the mission was twofold: it would give Europeans the chance of seeing Japanese people at first hand and appreciating their culture, thereby publicising the work of the Catholic Church in Japan and so (it was hoped) increase much-needed financial support; and secondly on their return to Japan the envoys would give eyewitness reports of the splendours of Renaissance Europe, thus moderating Japanese notions about the outside world and foreign barbarians. The boys travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy and were feted wherever they went. In Venice, the authorities even postponed the annual festival in honour of St Mark, the city’s patron, so that the Japanese might view the spectacle. More importantly, the boys met Philip II of Spain several times, as well as Pope Gregory XIII and his successor Sixtus V. This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation’s impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.
Book Synopsis Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan by : Olof G. Lidin
Download or read book Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan written by Olof G. Lidin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese soon followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. After the merchants came the first missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, beginning the Christian century in Japan. This is not a new story, but it is the first time that Japanese, Portuguese and other European accounts have been brought together and presented in English. Their arrival was recorded by the Japanese in Tanegashima kafu, the Teppoki and the Kunitomo teppoki, here translated and presented together with European reports. Includes maps, and Portuguese and Japanese illustrations.
Book Synopsis Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan by : Olof G. Lidin
Download or read book Tanegashima - The Arrival of Europe in Japan written by Olof G. Lidin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese soon followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. After the merchants came the first missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, beginning the Christian century in Japan. This is not a new story, but it is the first time that Japanese, Portuguese and other European accounts have been brought together and presented in English. Their arrival was recorded by the Japanese in Tanegashima kafu, the Teppoki and the Kunitomo teppoki, here translated and presented together with European reports. Includes maps, and Portuguese and Japanese illustrations.
Book Synopsis The First European Description of Japan 1585 by : Luis Frois SJ
Download or read book The First European Description of Japan 1585 written by Luis Frois SJ and published by Japan Anthropology Workshop Series. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan, drafted the earliest systematic comparison of Western and Japanese cultures. This book constitutes the first critical English-language edition of the 1585 work, the original of which was discovered in the Royal Academy of History in Madrid after the Second World War. The book provides a translation of the text, which is not a continuous narrative, but rather more than 600 distichs or brief couplets on subjects such as gender, child rearing, religion, medicine, eating, horses, writing, ships and seafaring, architecture, and music and drama. In addition, the book includes a substantive introduction and other editorial material to explain the background and also to make comparisons with present-day Japanese life. Overall, the book represents an important primary source for understanding a particularly challenging period of history and its connection to contemporary Europe and Japan.
Book Synopsis Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I by : Donald F. Lach
Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.
