The furthest goal : Engelbert Kaempfer's encounter with Tokugawa Japan / [edited by] Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella.
Kaempfer's acclaimed History was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s but publication was delayed for some 30 years when, in 1727, it was finally published in London under the title The History of Japan. It subsequently appeared in a total of ten editions of transl...
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Japan Library,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the furthest goal / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey
- 2. Writing The history of Japan / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey
- 3. The interpreter interpreted : Kaempfer's Japanese collaborator Imamure Genemon Eisei / Paul van der Velde
- 4. Forgotten practices of the past : Kaempfer's strange description of the Japanese emperor / Carmen Blacker
- 5. The plants that carry his name : Kaempfer's study of the Japanese flora / Wolfgang Muntschick
- 6. The history of The history : the purchase and publication of Kaempfer's History of Japan / Derek Massarella
- 7. Changing the image : the drawings and prints in Kaempfer's History of Japan / J?rg Schmeisser
- 8. Epilogue : inquisitive and intelligent men / Derek Massarella.