The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) PDF Author: Christopher Joby
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438653
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan, which had a profound effect on Japan’s language, society and culture.

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900)

The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) PDF Author: Christopher Joby
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438653
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Book Description
In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan, which had a profound effect on Japan’s language, society and culture.

Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853

Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853 PDF Author: Grant K. Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136831800
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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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 gradual development of interest in wider spheres of western knowledge and culture.

World Trade Systems of the East and West

World Trade Systems of the East and West PDF Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004358560
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historical role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk.

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015)

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015) PDF Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1928914799
Category : Soybean
Languages : en
Pages : 981

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 168 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature PDF Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316368289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

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Book Description
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

Standard Dutch in the Netherlands

Standard Dutch in the Netherlands PDF Author: Dick Smakman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutch language
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Traditional Japanese Literature

Traditional Japanese Literature PDF Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157304
Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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Book Description
Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.

Interdisciplinary Edo

Interdisciplinary Edo PDF Author: Joshua Schlachet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040050107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Book Description
Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603–1868). It makes an intervention in the field by thinking across conventional disciplinary boundaries toward a holistic and cohesive approach to Japan’s early modern period. By taking historical, religious, literary, and art historical analyses into account, the contributors hope to begin a new, transdisciplinary conversation on political formation, social interaction, and cultural proliferation under the “Great Peace” of the Tokugawa regime. This book comprises 14 essays by specialists of history, literature, religious studies, and art history. Major topics include Edo-period Japan’s cultural, intellectual, and economic connections to the early modern world; environmental humanities and material culture; popular culture and aesthetics; and the question of how contemporary academic demarcation lines impact the current study of Tokugawa Japan. Individual essays range in scale from individual paintings and works of prose fiction to the tectonic plates underlying the Yamashiro basin and span topics from overseas medicinal exchange and premodern cartography to the history of intoxication. Interdisciplinary Edo will be of immediate interest to all scholars focusing on the early modern period, as well as to researchers studying other periods of Japanese studies. As part of an ongoing and inclusive process of pluralizing and deprovincializing global conceptions of early modernity, this book will contribute to historiographical interventions outside Japan studies as well.

Classical Japanese

Classical Japanese PDF Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231509466
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Book Description
Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.

Shaping a Dutch East Indies

Shaping a Dutch East Indies PDF Author: Siegfried Huigen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004545816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.