The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents,9780312116811

The Japanese Discovery of America A Brief History with Documents

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ISBN13: 9780312116811
ISBN10: 0312116810
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Pub. Date: 1996-12-15
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Author Biography

Peter Duus (Ph. D., Harvard University) is the William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University. He has published widely on the history of modern Japan and is the editor of volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Japan. His most recent scholarly publication is The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (1995). Duus has spent many years in Japan, most recently as a Fulbright research scholar in 1994-1995.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Preface vii
Map of Japan
xiv
PART ONE The Japanese Discovery of America 1(42)
Japan's Isolation Policy
3(5)
America's Approach to Japan
8(6)
The Americans as Barbarians
14(4)
Observing the Americans
18(9)
Interpreting the Americans
27(6)
Rejecting the American Model
33(4)
The American Discovery of Japan
37(6)
PART TWO The Documents 43(175)
The Policy of Isolation
45(17)
From Kirishitan Monogatari (Tales of the Christians), 1639
45(3)
Honda Toshiaki, from Keisei hisaku (A Secret Strategy for Ruling the Country), 1798
48(2)
Dutch Ship (Poem), 1818
50(2)
Rai San'Yo
Shinron (New Theses), 1825
52(5)
Aizawa Seishisai
A Bakufu Expulsion Edict, 1825
57(1)
Kaibosaku (A Plan for Coastal Defense), 1842
58(4)
Sakuma Shozan
American Views of Japan
62(11)
``Narrative of a Voyage of the Ship Morrison,'' 1837
62(5)
Samuel Wells Williams
An American Businessman's View of Japan, 1849
67(4)
Aaron Haight Palmer
Report of Japanese Cruelty to American Sailors, 1852
71(2)
Japanese Reports about America
73(17)
Konyo zushiki (A World Atlas), 1845-1846
73(5)
Mitsukuri Shogo
The Interrogation of a Castaway, ca. 1851
78(5)
Hyoryuki (The Record of a Castaway), 1863
83(7)
Hamada Hikozo
The Arrival of the Americans
90(27)
From The Personal Journal of Commodore Mattew C. Perry, 1853-1854
90(7)
Official Report of the Perry Expedition, 1856
97(2)
Francis L. Hawks
Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853
99(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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