The West's encounter with Japanese civilization, 1800-1940
By: introduction by Catharina Blomberg.
Contributors: Blomberg, Catarina.
Publisher: Japan Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: East and West.; Japan -- Description and travel.; Japan -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2. Narrative of my captivity in Japan during the years 1811, 1812 & 1813 : with observations on the country and the people by Captain Golownin, R.N. ; To which is added an account of voyages to the coasts of Japan and negotiations with the Japanese, for the release of the author and his companions / by Captain Rikord (published in two volumes; translated from the 1816 Russian edition; 1818, Henry Colburn, London); title: v. 3. 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 / Isaac Titsingh ; translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl (1822, R. Ackermann, Strand, London); title: v. 4. Sketches of Japanese manners and customs / J.M.W. Silver ; illustrated by native drawings (1867, Day and Son, London); title: v. 5. Japan, being a sketch of the history, government and officers of the Empire / Walter Dickson (1869, William Blackwoods and Sons, Edinburgh and London); title: v. 6. Episodes in a life of adventure, or, Moss from a rolling stone / Laurence Oliphant (Third edition 1887, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London); title: v. 7. Promenades Japonaises / Emile Guimet & Felix Regamey (Original French edition, 1878, G. Charpentier, Paris); title: v. 8. Promenades Japonaises - Tokio-Nikko / Emile Guimet & Felix Regamey (Original French edition, 1883, G. Charpentier, Paris); title: v. 9. Young Americans in Japan, or, The adventures of the Jewett family and their friend Oto Nambo / Edward Greey (1883, Lee and Shepherd Publishers, Boston); title: v. 10. Japanese girls and women / Alice Bacon (1891, Gay and Bird, London) ; Artistic and gastronomic travels in Japan : from Yedo to Kiyoto by the Tokaido' / Charles Wirgman (Unpublished manuscript with line drawings, 1872); title: v. 11. Dreiunddreissig Jahre in Ost-Asien / Max von Brandt (Japan-related chapters drawn from the original three-volume work in German; 1901, Georg Wigand, Leipzig); title: v. 12. Japananischer Humor / C.A. Netto & G. Wagener (Original German edition; 1901, F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig); title: Letters from the Far East / Sir Charles Eliot (1907, Edward Arnold, London); title: v. 14. Beauty in Japan / Samuel Wainwright (1935, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York).