The furthest goal : Engelbert Kaempfer's encounter with Tokugawa Japan

Author(s)

• Bodart-Bailey, Beatrice M.
• Massarella, Derek

Bibliographic Information

The furthest goal : Engelbert Kaempfer's encounter with Tokugawa Japan

[edited by] Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella

Japan Library, 1995

Note

Based on the papers of a symposium to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of Engelbert Kaempher's arrival in Japan held in Tokyo in Dec. 1990

Bibliography: p. 189-198

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction, B.M. Bodart-Bailey
• Chapter 2 WritingThe History of Japan, B.M. Bodart-Bailey
• Chapter 3 The Interpreter Interpreted, Paul van der Velde
• Chapter 4 Forgotten Practices of the Past, Carmen Blacker
• Chapter 5 The Plants that Carry His Name, Wolfgang Muntschick
• Chapter 6 The History ofThe History, Derek Massarella
• Chapter 7 Changing the Image, Joerg Schmeisser
• Chapter 8 Epilogue, Derek Massarella

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Details

• NCID: BA26630857
• ISBN:
  • 1873410379
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Folkestone
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 204 p., [12] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 952.025
  • NDLC : GB341
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japan -- History -- To 1868
  • BLSH : Kaempher, Engelbert, 1651-1716 -- Congresses
  • BLSH : Kaempher, Engelbert, 1651-1716. Geschichte und Beschreibung von Japan