Title: Russian views of Japan, 1792-1913 : an anthology of travel writing /
Authors: Wells, David N., 1959-
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Japan Description and travel; Russia Relations Japan.; Japan Relations Russia.
Abstract: "This book presents rare narratives written by Russians - explorers, official envoys, scholars and, later, tourists - who visited Japan between 1792 and 1913. The introduction and notes set these narratives in the context of the history of Russo-Japanese relations and the genre of European travel writing, showing how the Russian writers combined ethnographic interests with the assertion of Russian and European values, simultaneously inscribing power relations and negotiating cultural difference. Students of Japanese history, nineteenth-century Russia, literature and cultural studies will find this book provides an invaluable insight into the contact between two civilisations at a time when they were particularly ignorant of each other."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Journal of Laxman's embassy to Japan (Ezo, 1792-3) / Adam Laxman -- Voyage round the world (Nagasaki, 1804-5) / Ivan Krusenstern -- Narrative of my captivity in Japan (Ezo, 1811) / Vasilii Golovnin -- The frigate Pallada (Nagasaki, 1853) / Ivan Goncharov -- News from Japan (Edo, 1859) / A. Kornilov -- In the East (Hakodate, 1860) / Sergei Maksimov -- Around Asia (Nagasaki, 1880) / Ivan Zarubin -- On the Japanese railways (Nagoya, 1890) / A. Cherevkova -- Around the islands of the Far East (Nagasaki, 1892) / Andrei Krasnov -- Around Korea, Manchuria and the Liaodong, peninsula (Nagasaki, Yokohama, 98) Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovskii -- The price of blood (Kyoto, 1905) / Vladimir Semenov -- My first day in Japan (Gifu, 1913) / E. Kobiakova.