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" The Japanese discovery of America : "
edited with an introduction by Peter Duus.
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582514
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b411733
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The Japanese discovery of America : : a brief history with documents /\ edited with an introduction by Peter Duus.
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Boston ;New York :: Bedford Books,, c1997.
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The Bedford series in history and culture
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xii, 226 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm.
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0312163789
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: 9780312163785
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: 0312116810 (pbk.)
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: 9780312116811 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-214) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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United States, Relations, Japan.
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Japan, Relations, United States.
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E183.8.J3J353 1997
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Duus, Peter,1933-
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