The Japanese discovery of Victorian Britain : early travel encounters in the Far West / Andrew Cobbing.
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fas...
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Full Text (via Taylor & Francis) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Richmond, Surrey :
Japan Library,
[1998]
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| Series: | Meiji Japan series ;
5. |
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| Summary: | The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on V. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134250066 1134250061 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |