Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns

Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1720-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country to embrace change. After many years in Java, India and China, he came to London, and then settled in Paris where he devoted himself to compiling translations of prime Japanese texts. It is one of the most exciting anthologies of the period and reveals the almost unknown world of eighteenth-century Japan, discussing politics, history, poetry and rituals. The Illustrations of Japan appeared posthumously in 1821-1822 in English, French and Dutch. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in nearly two centuries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Titsingh, Isaac

Screech, Timon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns Introduction: Before the Tokugawa 2. Essays on Japanese Civilisation On Legal Suicide On Japanese Poetry The Character of the Japanese People 3. Historical Observations Secret Diary of Issac Titsingh Titsingh’s Philosophical Discourse

Über Autor(innen)

Isaac Titsingh, TimonScreech