ISBN:
9780700712205
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (314 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853
DDC:
303.48/2520492
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the history of Dutch influence on Japan during the so-called 'closed centuries' between 1640 and 1853. Dutch maritime traders provided the only commercial link which Japan maintained with the west, and were thus the sole channel for western ideas and knowledge to reach neo-Confucian society. Professor Goodman explains the circumstances of the Dutch themselves in Japan during the seventeenth century, and the historical and intellectual milieu within which 'Dutch studies' were nurtured. He traces the initial interest of the Shogun government in European astronomy and medicine, and the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; JAPAN AND THE DUTCH 1600-1853; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I Introduction; II The Dutch at Hirado; III The island of Deshima; IV Visits to Edo; V The Nagasaki interpreters and early medical and astronomical studies; VI Arai Hakuseki and intellectual developments in Genroku and Shotoku; VII Tokugawa Yoshimune and Western learning; VIII Aoki Kon'yo and Noro Genjo; IX The kohoka, Maeno Ryotaku and Sugita Gempaku; X The advent of heliocentricity; XI Otsuki Gentaku and the spread of Rangaku; XII Western learning in various domains; XIII Western learning in private schools
Description / Table of Contents:
XIV Rangaku and Tokugawa intellectual fermentXV Conclusion; NOTES; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
