Japan on the Silk Road : : encounters and perspectives of politics and culture in Eurasia / / edited by Selçuk Esenbel.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese studies library ; volume 60
• TeilnehmendeR: Esenbel, Selçuk, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; volume 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 pages) :; illustrations.

Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal Küçükyalcın, A. Merthan Dündar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus Röhborn, Mehmet Ölmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oğuz Baykara, and Satō Masako.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors (By Order of Chapter) -- Introduction / Selçuk Esenbel -- Japan and the Great Game / Ian Nish -- Western and Central Asia in the Eyes of the Japanese Radical Right / Christopher W.A. Szpilman -- Fukushima Yasumasa’s Travels in Central Asia and Siberia: Silk Road Romanticism, Military Reconnaissance, or Modern Exploration? / Sven Saaler -- Fukushima Yasumasa and Utsunomiya Tarō on the Edge of the Silk Road: Pan-Asian Visions and the Network of Military Intelligence from the Ottoman and Qajar Realms into Central Asia / Selçuk Esenbel -- Mongolia as a Base for Central Asia and the Silk Road / Narangoa Li -- Abdurreshid Ibrahim and Japanese Approaches to Central Asia / Hisao Komatsu -- Exploring Asia, Reforming Japan: Ōtani Kōzui and Itō Chūta / Brij Tankha -- Ōtani Kozui and His Vision of Asia: From Villa Nirakusō to “The Rise of Asia” Project / Erdal Küçükyalçın -- The Effects of the Russo-Japanese War on Turkic Nations: Japan and Japanese in Folk Songs, Elegies, and Poems / A. Merthan Dündar -- Some Notes on the Japanese Records and Information on the “Turks” / Akio Katayama -- Tracing Origins Along the Silk Road: Japanese Architect Itō Chūta’s Travel in the Ottoman Lands / Miyuki Aoki Girardelli -- The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan / Klaus Röhrborn -- Appendix to the “The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan” / Mehmet Ölmez -- F. Beato Beyond Empires: Flaneur, Photo Reporter, Merchant / Banu Kaygusuz -- Translation Practices on the Silk Road and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “Toshishun” / Oğuz Baykara -- Transforming an Ancient Myth into a Popular Medieval Tale / Masako Satō.