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Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan by : Hendrik Doeff
Download or read book Recollections of Japan written by Hendrik Doeff and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's perspective. The author, Hendrik Doeff, chief of the United Dutch East India Company in Deshima, mastered the Japanese language, giving him a unique grasp of the Japanese culture which he describes with dispassionate, journalistic objectivity and respect. With Europe engulfed in the Napoleonic wars, Holland occupied by the French and the Dutch colonies usurped by the English, Hendrik Doeff successfully thwarted attempts by the Russians, English and Americans to break the Dutch monopoly on trade with Japan. Twice English ships forced themselves into the bay of Nagasaki and only Doeff's skill and diplomacy prevented a massacre of the English which in turn might have provoked a was between England and Japan and changed history. Doeff also describes in detail one of his three treks to the Court in Edo and the eagerness of Japanese scholars to obtain Western knowledge. There is a link with America's early history as the Dutch used American ships, to circumvent the capture of their own ships by the English. An embargo imposed by the United States Congress had idled many American ships who sailed to the Pacific instead. This book is a micro history and gives a delicious insight into international intrigues, national pride, hatreds and prejudices in a time of competitive monopoly seeking. Most of all, it reveals how supposedly "closed" Japan kept a window open to the world, especially the West, which explains its rapid transformation from a feudal to an industrialized nation after Perry opened Japan to the wider world.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan by : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
Download or read book Recollections of Japan written by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The times a guest by : Charles Alfred Fisher
Download or read book The times a guest written by Charles Alfred Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Times a Guest by : Charles Alfred Fisher
Download or read book Three Times a Guest written by Charles Alfred Fisher and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan by : Constance Chappell
Download or read book Recollections of Japan written by Constance Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mitford's Japan written by Hugh Cortazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given to his contemporary Ernest Satow. Accordingly, this new paperback edition, which makes the Mitford memoirs available to a much wider audience, includes a wide selection of extracts from Mitford's bestselling Tales of Old Japan (1871) - what Mitford, according to Carmen Blacker, perceived as the essence of the Japanese spirit: 'heroic, ruthless, devotedly loyal, bloody and chivalrous'.
Book Synopsis As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by : Lady Sarashina
Download or read book As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams written by Lady Sarashina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-12-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born at the height of the Heian period, the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much about the Japanese literary tradition in this haunting self-portrait. Born in 1008, Lady Sarashina was a lady-in-waiting of Heian-period Japan. Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan by : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
Download or read book Recollections of Japan written by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japan written by Grace James and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japanese Journeys by : Geoffrey Bownas
Download or read book Japanese Journeys written by Geoffrey Bownas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Bownas, widely known over the last half century for his writings, translations, broadcasts and commentaries relating to Japan, and an eminent Japanese Studies scholar who pioneered teaching in this field at Oxford (1954) and Sheffield (1966), has at last completed a memoir. It is both a literary triumph and a compelling read – not least for the many who have known him – as well as a historical record of some significance tracking Japan’s post-war history from abject poverty to unimaginable prosperity as the world’s second largest economy, and the ‘lost’ post-bubble years. In particular, the author includes a detailed account of his association with Mishima Yukio while preparing the Penguin New Writing in Japan, his early years in Kyoto and his experience of living in Tenri City. He also offers a critical appraisal of the Japanese aesthetic, documents an extraordinary meeting with Honda Soichiro, and takes a nostalgic journey back to the writing of his many books on Japan, including the Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (with Anthony Thwaite), Japanese Rainmaking and Other Folk Practices, and Japan and the New Europe. Equally, his involvement and input at some of Japan’s key turning points over the last fifty years make fascinating reading, such as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics when he was the BBC’s interpreter, and more recently the New Kansai International Airport in the early 1990S as consultant to Watson Steel, a member of the AMEC Group.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan, 1863-1864 by : Sir Hamilton Pym Freer-Smith
Download or read book Recollections of Japan, 1863-1864 written by Sir Hamilton Pym Freer-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan, 1863-64. Reproduced from the "Cornhill Magazine," April, 1913 ... by : Sir Hamilton Pym Freer Smith
Download or read book Recollections of Japan, 1863-64. Reproduced from the "Cornhill Magazine," April, 1913 ... written by Sir Hamilton Pym Freer Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections and Reflections of a Japanese Artist by :
Download or read book Recollections and Reflections of a Japanese Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japan. Recollections and Impressions, Etc. [With Plates.]. by : Grace James
Download or read book Japan. Recollections and Impressions, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by Grace James and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memories of Silk and Straw by : Junichi Saga
Download or read book Memories of Silk and Straw written by Junichi Saga and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
Book Synopsis Mitford's Japan by : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
Download or read book Mitford's Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Japan, 1863-1864 ... Reproduced from the "Cornhill Magazine," Etc by : Sir Hamilton Pym Freer SMITH
Download or read book Recollections of Japan, 1863-1864 ... Reproduced from the "Cornhill Magazine," Etc written by Sir Hamilton Pym Freer SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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