page_title: Illustrations of Japan
section_title: Themes and contents
hierarchical_section_title: Illustrations of Japan / Themes and contents
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Isaac Titsingh, Bijzonderheden van Japan. Het huwelijksprotocol uitgebeeld. Links: de bruidegom zendt een geschenk bij gelegenheid van het bezoek van de bruid aan haar ouders. Rechts: de bruid, door haar schoonmoeder of door enkele andere bloedverwanten vergezeld, bezoekt allen van wie zij geschenken ontvangen heeft. (1 Deel Pl 3 English: Isaac Titsingh, Bijzonderheden over Japan. Left: the bridegroom sends a gift at the occasion of the visit of the bride to her parents. Right: the bride, accompanied by her mother in law or other near relatives, visits all those from whom she received gifts. (1 Part Pl 3)
context_page_description: The Dutch-language book Bijzonderheden over Japan, behelzende een verslag van de huwelijks plechtigheden, begrafenissen en feesten der Japanezen, de gedenkschriften der laatste Japansche keizers, en andere merkwaardigheden nopens dat rij. Uit het Engelsch, met gekleurde platen naar Japansche originelen is about Japanese history, customs and ceremonies during the Tokugawa period observed by Dutch senior official in the VOC Isaac Titsingh, published in 1824 in The Hague by Wed. J.Allart. It was based on the English book Illustrations of Japan; consisting of Private Memoirs and Anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of The Djogouns, or Sovereigns of Japan; a description of the Feasts and Ceremonies observed throughout the year at their Court; and of the Ceremonies customary at Marriages and Funerals: to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, an explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work by Confoutzee on filial piety, published two years before in 1822 by R. Ackermann in London.
context_section_description: In the book, Titsingh covers the following themes: 
  A history of the Japanese, starting from the Middle Ages until the reigning dynasty of shōguns during the Tokugawa era
  Feasts and ceremonies observed at the court of the shōguns
  Legal suicide of the Japanese
  Essays on Japanese poetry
  Weights and coins
  Explanations on the year division of the Japanese
  Description of plans of the Dutch and Chinese factories at Nagasaki, during Titsingh's times at the end of the 18th century
  The life cycles of a Japanese: marriage and funerals
  Essays on the Dosia powder
  Essays on the work of Confutzee
caption: Bijzonderheden over Japan (1824). First illustration of a wedding ceremony.
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