Japan and American children's books : a journey
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Japan and American children's books : a journey
Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress, c2021
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and complete fabrications.
This volume takes readers on a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role that representations of Japan played in the evolution of children’s literature, including the early works of Edward Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books, folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give readers a fascinating look at these striking texts.
Published by Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of Congress.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer
Note to the Reader
Prologue: Japan in Early Books for Children: From Comenius to Commodore Perry
Part I From Early Children’s Books to the End of the Nineteenth Century
1 They Went to Japan: The Post-Perry Travelers and Their Stories for the Young
2 Fact and Fiction: Travelogues and Adventure Tales about Japan to the Turn of the Twentieth Century
3 Takejiro Hasegawa: The Foreigners’ Publisher
4 Japan in St. Nicholas Magazine
5 The Children’s Book Writers and Their Information Sources: From Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème
Part II The Twentieth Century
6 Globetrotting in Children’s Books: From 1900 to World War II
7 Louise Seaman Bechtel: America’s First Children’s Book Editor and Her Books about Japan
8 The Post-World War II Years
9 Three Japanese American Journeys
10 Into the Twenty-First Century
Appendix: The Gatekeepers: Leading American Children’s Librarians and Their Influence on Children’s Books about Japan
Selected Bibliography and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
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