The Japanese Discovery of America
Subtitle: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: December 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780312116811
Subjects: History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; General; International Relations - General; History / General; United States - General; Japan; Relations; United States
Table of contents: title: Part One : The Japanese discovery of America.; title: Japan's isolation policy; title: America's approach to Japan; title: The Americans as barbarians; title: Observing the Americans; title: Interpreting the Americans; title: Rejecting the American model; title: The American discovery of Japan; title: Part Two : The documents.; title: From Kirishitan Monogatari (Tales of the Christians); title: From Keisei Hisaku (A secret strategy for ruling the country) / Honda Toshiaki; title: Dutch ship (Poem) / Rai San'yo; title: From Shinfron (New theses) / Aizawa Seishisai; title: A Bakufu expulsion edict; title: Kaibosaku (A plan for coastal defense) / Sakuma Shozan; title: From Narrative of a voyage of the ship Morrison / Samuel Wells Williams; title: An American businessman's view of Japan / Aaron Haight Palmer; title: Report of Japanese cruelty to American sailors; title: From Konyo zushiki (A world atlas) / Mitsukuri Shogo; title: The interrogation of a castaway; title: From Hyoryuki (The record of a castaway) / Hamada Hikozo; title: From The personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; title: Official report of the Perry expedition / Francis L. Hawks; title: Memorial on the American demand for a treaty / Ii Naosuke; title: Memorial on the American demand for a treaty / Tokugawa Nariaki; title: Broadsheet of sumo wrestlers delivering rice; title: Broadsheet on the "capture" of the Americans; title: A comic dialogue; title: A black ship scroll with dialogue; title: Report of a rape; title: From The complete journal of Townsend Harris; title: Memorial on the Harris proposal / Hotta Masayoshi; title: From kyofu no gen (Testimony of a madman) / Yoshida Shoin; title: Two American views on the opening of the treaty ports; title: From The journal of Francis Hall; title: A Yokohama print of an American man and wife; title: From Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi (A record of observations in the open port of yokohama) / Hashimoto Sadahide; title: Proposal for reforming Japan / Yokoi Shonan; title: Evaluation of foregn religion / Yokoi Shonan; title: From The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa / Fukusawa Yukichi; title: From Kokai Nikki (Diary of a voyage abroad) / Muragaki Norimasa; title: Two American reports on the 1860 mission; title: A Broadway pageant (poem) / Walt Whitman; title: Report of the Iwakura mission / Kume Kunitake; title: From Kume hakase kyujunen kaikoroku (The memoirs of Professor Kume Kunitake) / Kume Kunitake --An American report on the Iwakura mission; title: From Seiyo jijo (Conditions in the West) / Fukuzawa Yukichi; title: From Bunmei no gairyaku (An outline of a theory of civilization) / Fukuzawa Yukichi; title: An explanation of twelve Western words (Part I) / Nishimura Shigeki; title: The federated states of North and South America / Sugi Koji; title: A Japanese student's views of the United States / Knoue Ryokichi; title: From The mikado's empire / William Elliot Griffis; title: Appendices.; title: Glossary; title: Chronology of Japan's relations with the West; title: Selected bibliography