The Japanese Discovery Of Victorian Britain

Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134250066

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The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.

Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134250134

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The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain by Andrew Cobbing Pdf

The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0954592115

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Japan in Late Victorian London by Hugh Cortazzi Pdf

Author : Toshio Yokoyama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349083725

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Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama Pdf

Author : Lorraine Sterry
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004213098

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Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan by Lorraine Sterry Pdf

Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a highly desirable travel destination thereafter.

Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134252091

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The Satsuma Students in Britain by Andrew Cobbing Pdf

In the spring of 1865, when Japan was in the grip of a major civil war, eighteen samurai and an interpreter risked their lives to embark secretly on a voyage to the unknown lands of the barbarian west. Their destination was Britain - at the hub of a vast empire. These were the Satsuma students, some of them still in their teens, all carrying orders from their domains to travel abroad. It was an extraordinary and daring expedition. Their experience of life in the west not only transformed their perception of the outside world, but through their diverse activities in later life, had a profound impact on commerce, education and culture in Meiji Japan. First published in 1974, Inuzuka Takaaki's study is still the classic work on the Satsuma students' revealing tale of discovery. In this translation by Andrew Cobbing, further details that have since emerged are also included to give a fresh portrayal, the first in English, of this singular episode in the opening of Japan.

Author : Toshio Yokoyama
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046869122

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Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama Pdf

Preface - Chronological Table - List of Illustrations - List of Abbreviations - Map of Japan - Introduction - This Singular Country: British Writers' Thoughts in the Early 1850s on the Future Anglo-Japanese Encounter - Japan and the Edinburgh Publishers, William Blackwood and Sons - Britain, the Happy Suitor of a Fairy Land: About 1860, Immediately after the Conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty - Britain, the Suitor Disillusioned with Japan: In the Last Years of the Tokugawa Regime - In Quest of the Inner Life of the Japanese: The Era of Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1869-72 - The Strange History of this Strange Country: The 1870s, a Decade of Zealous Westernization - Young Japan versus Great Britain: The Reinforcement of the Idea of Britain's Remoteness from Japan - Victorian Travellers in the Elf-land Japan: Their Wish to Fall in Love with Old Japan, 1870-80 - Conclusion - Selected Bibliography - Index

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780939773

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Victorians in Japan by Hugh Cortazzi Pdf

An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself. First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Dallas Finn
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015034009962

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Meiji Revisited by Dallas Finn Pdf

During the Meiji period (1868-1912), the Japanese laid the foundations for what is now the most advanced nation in Asia. Like Victorian Britain, which served as a model, Meiji Japan was characterized by faith in progress, civilization, and the growth of empire. This book features the architecture and feats of engineering of this age, illustrating Japan's transformation from a feudal society into a modern nation-state. Factories and schools, palaces and prisons, private homes, churches, hospitals, railways, bridges, canals, shipyards, warehouses, parks, and museums are all discussed, with attention to both the nuances of their design and construction and to their broader significance in reflecting and shaping the lives and consciousness of the people who built and used them.

Author : Grace E. Lavery
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691183626

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Quaint, Exquisite by Grace E. Lavery Pdf

How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, textual criticism, and a wealth of in-depth archival research, Grace Lavery provides a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She argues that the global popularity of Japanese art in the late nineteenth century reflected an imagined universal standard of taste that Kant described as the “subjective universal” condition of aesthetic judgment. The book features illuminating cultural histories of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, English derivations of the haiku, and retellings of the Madame Butterfly story, and sheds critical light on lesser-known figures such as Winnifred Eaton, an Anglo-Chinese novelist who wrote under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, and Mikimoto Ryuzo, a Japanese enthusiast of the Victorian art critic John Ruskin. Lavery also explains the importance and symbolic power of such material objects as W. B. Yeats’s prized katana sword and the “Japanese vellum” luxury editions of Oscar Wilde. Quaint, Exquisite provides essential insights into the modern understanding of beauty as a vehicle for both intimacy and violence, and the lasting influence of Japanese forms today on writers and artists such as Quentin Tarantino.

Author : Toshio Watanabe
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000355086

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High Victorian Japonisme by Toshio Watanabe Pdf

The book demonstrates the importance of Britain in the early dissemination of Japanese art in the West and analyses British reactions to Japanese art, both theoretical and artistic. This book differs from most others on Japonisme in that it deals with Britain rather than France and is concerned with an early period. It discusses design as well as fine art, gives the first comprehensive account of the debate among Victorian design theorists on Japanese art and utilises a wealth of little-known source material. It also proposes a radically new interpretation of Whistler's Japonisme.

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1472553640

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Victorians in Japan by Hugh Cortazzi Pdf

An anthology of impressions, ''snapshots'' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself. First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0415564980

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The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 by Donald Keene Pdf

Author : Kenneth D. Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719052912

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Britain and Japan by Kenneth D. Brown Pdf

A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study, Brown identifies moments where this affinity between allusion and the uncanny is used by writers to generate a particular textual charge, where uncanny elements are used to flag patterns of allusion and to point to the haunting presence of an earlier work. A Familiar Compound Ghost traces the subtle patterns of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys to the underworld.

Author : Olive Checkland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349106097

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Britain's Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868-1912 by Olive Checkland Pdf

During the Meiji Era, of 1868-1912, British influence in Japan was stronger than that of any other foreign power. Although role models were sought from Englishmen and Scotsmen, whether diplomats, engineers, educators or philosophers, the first priority for the Japanese was to achieve a transfer of industrial and technical skills. As important customers, who brought good profits to British industry, the Japanese were accommodated when they stipulated on awarding a contract that their own people should work in office, shipyard or factory. Much new research material discovered in Japan, England and Scotland has enabled the detailed examination of a relationship - with Britain as Senior and Japan as Junior partner - which lasted until 1914. It was on these foundations that Japan was able subsequently to build a great industrial nation.