Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors : From Goncharov to Pinguet / edited by Shōichi Saeki, Tōru Haga

• HerausgeberIn: Saeki, Shōichi; Haga, Tōru
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Springer, 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023
• Language: English
• Classification: 17.70 - Literaturwissenschaft: Allgemeines
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 246 Seiten); 1 Illustrationen

This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer us a broad spectrum of contents, reflecting a variety of attitudes toward Ja...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, The Frigate Pallada
• Chapter 2. Sir Rutherford Alcock, The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in Japan
• Chapter 3. Ernest Mason Satow, A Diplomat in Japan
• Chapter 4. William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado’s Empire
• Chapter 5. Emile Etienne Guimet, Promenades Japonaises Tokio-Nikko, Félix Régamey, Japon
• Chapter 6. Huang Zunxian, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects from Japan
• Chapter 7. Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Chapter 8. Percival Lowell, The Soul of the Far East
• Chapter 9. Pierre Loti, Japoneries d’automne
• Chapter 10. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese
• Chapter 10. Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
• Chapter 11. Lady Fraser, A Diplomatist’s Wife in Japan – Letters from Home to Home
• Chapter 12. Ludwig Riess, Allerlei aus Japan
• Chapter 13. Erwin von Bälz (Baelz), Erwin von Bälz. Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan
• Chapter 14. Muṣṭafā Kāmil Pasha, Al-Shams al-Mushriqa (Rising Sun)
• Chapter 15. Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design
• Chapter 16. Edward Sylvester Morse, Japan Day by Day 1877, 1878-79, 1882-83
• Chapter 17. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism
• Chapter 18. Wenceslau de Moraes, Ó-Yoné e Ko-Haru
• Chapter 19. Paul Claudel, L’Oiseau noir dans le Soleil levant
• Chapter 20. Dai Jitao, Theory of Japan
• Chapter 21. Zhou Zuoren, A Personal View of Japan
• Chapter 22. Lady Sansom, Living in Tokyo
• Chapter 23. Bruno Taut, Das japanische Haus und sein Leben
• Chapter 24. Joseph Clark Grew, Ten Years in Japan: A Contemporary Record Drawn from the Diaries and Private and Official Papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932–1942
• Chapter 25. Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
• Chapter 26. Leocadio de Asis, From Bataan to Tokyo, Diary of a Filipino Student in Wartime Japan 1943–1944
• Chapter 27. Reginald Horace Blyth, Haiku
• Chapter 28. Sir George Bailey Sansom, The Western World and Japan – A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Culture
• Chapter 29. Ronald Philip Dore, City Life in Japan – A Study of Tokyo Ward
• Chapter 30. Donald Keene, The Japanese Discovery of Europe – Honda Toshiaki and Other Discoverers 1720 –1830
• Chapter 31. Earl Miner, The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature
• Chapter 32. Marius B. Jansen, Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration
• Chapter 33. Roland Barthes, L’empire des signes
• Chapter 34. Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, The Japanese
• Chapter 35. Kim So-un, Ten no hate ni ikuru to mo (Even though I Live at the End of the Skies)
• Chapter 36. Lee O-young, The Compact Culture: The Japanese tradition of “smaller is better”
• Chapter 37. Edward Seidensticker, Low City, High City – Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake
• Chapter 38. Maurice Pinguet, La mort volontaire au Japon