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The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents

by: Duus, Peter

The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents

by: Duus, Peter

ISBN 13:
9780312116811
ISBN 10:
0312116810
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/15/1996
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Foreword

Preface

vii

Map of Japan

xiv

PART ONE The Japanese Discovery of America

(42)

Japan's Isolation Policy

(5)

America's Approach to Japan

(6)

The Americans as Barbarians

(4)

Observing the Americans

(9)

Interpreting the Americans

(6)

Rejecting the American Model

(4)

The American Discovery of Japan

(6)

PART TWO The Documents

(175)

The Policy of Isolation

(17)

From Kirishitan Monogatari (Tales of the Christians), 1639

(3)

Honda Toshiaki, from Keisei hisaku (A Secret Strategy for Ruling the Country), 1798

(2)

Dutch Ship (Poem), 1818

(2)

Rai San'Yo

Shinron (New Theses), 1825

(5)

Aizawa Seishisai

A Bakufu Expulsion Edict, 1825

(1)

Kaibosaku (A Plan for Coastal Defense), 1842

(4)

Sakuma Shozan

American Views of Japan

(11)

``Narrative of a Voyage of the Ship Morrison,'' 1837

(5)

Samuel Wells Williams

An American Businessman's View of Japan, 1849

(4)

Aaron Haight Palmer

Report of Japanese Cruelty to American Sailors, 1852

(2)

Japanese Reports about America

(17)

Konyo zushiki (A World Atlas), 1845-1846

(5)

Mitsukuri Shogo

The Interrogation of a Castaway, ca. 1851

(5)

Hyoryuki (The Record of a Castaway), 1863

(7)

Hamada Hikozo

The Arrival of the Americans

(27)

From The Personal Journal of Commodore Mattew C. Perry, 1853-1854

(7)

Official Report of the Perry Expedition, 1856

(2)

Francis L. Hawks

Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853

(3)

Ii Naosuke

Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853

102

(4)

Tokugawa Nariaki

Broadsheet of Sumo Wrestlers Delivering Rice, 1854

106

(2)

Broadsheet on the ``Capture'' of the Americans, 1854

108

(2)

A Comic Dialogue, ca. 1855

110

(2)

A Black Ship Scroll with Dialogue, ca. 1854

112

(3)

Report of a Rape, 1854

115

(2)

The Opening of Trade

117

(28)

From The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris, 1857-1858

117

(5)

Memorial on the Harris Proposal, 1857

122

(3)

Hotta Masayoshi

Kyofu no gen (Testimony of a Madman), 1858

125

(3)

Yoshida Shoin

The American Views on the Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1858/1860

128

(3)

From The Journal of Francis Hall, 1863

131

(2)

A Yokohama Print of an American Man and Wife, 1863

133

(2)

Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi (A Record of Observations in the Open Port of Yokohama), 1861

135

(2)

Hashimoto Sadahide

Proposal for Reforming Japan, 1862

137

(3)

Yokoi Shonan

Evaluation of Foreign Religion, 1864

140

(5)

Yokoi Shonan

The Bakufu Mission of 1860

145

(23)

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1898

145

(5)

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Kokai nikki (Diary of a Voyage Abroad), 1860

150

(11)

Muragaki Norimasa

Two American Reports on the 1860 Mission, 1860

161

(3)

A Broadway Pageant (Poem), 1860

164

(4)

Walt Whitman

The Iwakura Mission of 1871

168

(17)

Report of the Iwakura Mission, 1878

168

(11)

Kume Kunitake

Kume hakase kyujunen kaikoroku (The Memoirs of Professor Kume Kunitake), 1934

179

(4)

Kume Kunitake

An American Report on the Iwakura Mission, 1872

183

(2)

America as ``Civilization''

185

(33)

Seiyo jijo (Conditions in the West), 1867

185

(2)

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Bunmei no gairyaku (An Outline of a Theory of Civilization), 1875

187

(3)

Fukuzawa Yukichi

``An Explanation of Twelve Western Words (part I),'' 1875

190

(3)

Nishimura Shigeki

The Federated States of North and South America, 1874

193

(1)

Sugi Koji

A Japanese Student's Views of the United States, 1872

194

(6)

Inoue Ryokichi [?]

The Mikado's Empire, 1876

200

(5)

William Elliot Griffis

APPENDICES

Glossary

205

(2)

Chronology of Japan's Relations with the West

207

(3)

Selected Bibliography

210

(8)

Index

218

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The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents

The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents

9780312116811

0312116810

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