Japan extolled and decried : Carl Peter Thunberg and the shogun's realm, 1775-1796
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Japan extolled and decried : Carl Peter Thunberg and the shogun's realm, 1775-1796
Routledge, 2011, c2005
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Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779
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First published 2005; First issued in paperback 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index
The Japanese section of Thunberg's 'Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779', based on the 3rd ed. of the English translation of 1795-96
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Description
This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus - of the great fathers of modern science - spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story.
Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun's private physician, Katsuragawa Hoshu, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned to his homeland. Thunberg's 'Travels' appeared in English in 1795 and until now has never been reprinted.
Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.
Table of Contents
1.Political and Social Introduction to the period (c. 1775-1800)
2. Specific Background of Thunberg's period in Japan (1775-1776)
3. Life and Intellectual Biography of Thunberg
4. TEXT
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