The Japanese discovery of America : a brief history with documents / edited with an introduction by Peter Duus.
Duus, Peter, 1933-
1997
E183.8.J3 J353 1997 (Mapit)
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Title The Japanese discovery of America : a brief history with documents / edited with an introduction by Peter Duus.
ISBN 0312163789
9780312163785
0312116810 (pbk.)
9780312116811 (pbk.)
Imprint Boston ; New York : Bedford Books, ©1997.
Language English
Description xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Call Number E183.8.J3 J353 1997
Summary This book focuses on the Japanese encounter with the Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, an episode that took place rather late in the "age of discovery," as the last "unknown" lands of Africa and Asia were being probed by Western merchants, explorers, and travelers. Most of the documents assembled here -- poems and political pamphlets, official memorials and private journals, newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts -- were written (or drawn) by the Japanese, for whom the encounter raised the question of national survival. Their contents reveal the ignorance and curiosity, the anxiety and confusion, the admiration and disillusion that attended the meeting of these two rather different cultures. - Preface.
Focuses on the Japanese encounter with the Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Includes poems, political pamphlets, official memorials, private journals, newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214) and index.
Added Author Duus, Peter, 1933-
Series Bedford series in history and culture.
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Part One. The Japanese discovery of America
Japan's isolation policy
America's approach to Japan
The Americans as barbarians
Observing the Americans
Interpreting the Americans
Rejecting the American model
The American discovery of Japan
Part Two. The documents
From Kirishitan Monogatari (Tales of the Christians)
From Keisei Hisaku (A secret strategy for ruling the country) / Honda Toshiaki
Dutch ship (Poem) / Rai San'yo
From Shinfron (New theses) / Aizawa Seishisai
A Bakufu expulsion edict
Kaibosaku (A plan for coastal defense) / Sakuma Shozan
From Narrative of a voyage of the ship Morrison / Samuel Wells Williams
An American businessman's view of Japan / Aaron Haight Palmer
Report of Japanese cruelty to American sailors
From Konyo zushiki (A world atlas) / Mitsukuri Shogo
The interrogation of a castaway
From Hyoryuki (The record of a castaway) / Hamada Hikozo
From The personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Official report of the Perry expedition / Francis L. Hawks
Memorial on the American demand for a treaty / Ii Naosuke
Memorial on the American demand for a treaty / Tokugawa Nariaki
Broadsheet of sumo wrestlers delivering rice
Broadsheet on the "capture" of the Americans
A comic dialogue
A black ship scroll with dialogue
Report of a rape
From The complete journal of Townsend Harris
Memorial on the Harris proposal / Hotta Masayoshi
From kyofu no gen (Testimony of a madman) / Yoshida Shoin
Two American views on the opening of the treaty ports
From The journal of Francis Hall
A Yokohama print of an American man and wife
From Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi (A record of observations in the open port of yokohama) / Hashimoto Sadahide
Proposal for reforming Japan / Yokoi Shonan
Evaluation of foregn religion / Yokoi Shonan
From The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa / Fukusawa Yukichi
From Kokai Nikki (Diary of a voyage abroad) / Muragaki Norimasa
Two American reports on the 1860 mission
A Broadway pageant (poem) / Walt Whitman
Report of the Iwakura mission / Kume Kunitake
From Kume hakase kyujunen kaikoroku (The memoirs of Professor Kume Kunitake) / Kume Kunitake
An American report on the Iwakura mission
From Seiyo jijo (Conditions in the West) / Fukuzawa Yukichi
From Bunmei no gairyaku (An outline of a theory of civilization) / Fukuzawa Yukichi
An explanation of twelve Western words (Part I) / Nishimura Shigeki
The federated states of North and South America / Sugi Koji
A Japanese student's views of the United States / Knoue Ryokichi
From The mikado's empire / William Elliot Griffis.

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