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18 produkter
Tokyo Before Tokyo
Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo
Häftad, 2024
341 kr
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Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-cities, and the centre of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture – but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called ‘Edo’, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics and urban civilization …
Sex and the Floating World
Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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Newly revised and expanded, this second edition of Timon Screech’s definitive Sex and the Floating World offers a real assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints today known as shunga. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of …
Shogun's Silver Telescope
God, Art & Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-25
E-bok, 2020
444 kr
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The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was originally a spice trading organisation. But its governors soon began to think bigger. After a decade, they started to plan voyages to more fabulous places, notably India and Japan. Rich in silver, Japan was a desirable trading partner; …
Shogun's Silver Telescope
God, Art & Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-25
E-bok, 2020
453 kr
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The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was originally a spice trading organisation. But its governors soon began to think bigger. After a decade, they started to plan voyages to more fabulous places, notably India and Japan. Rich in silver, Japan was a desirable trading partner; …
The Shogun's Silver Telescope
God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was the world's biggest trading organization until the twentieth century. It was originally a spice trading organization, and its existence was precarious in its early years. But its governors soon began to think bigger. A decade after its …
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Av C.P. Thunberg, Timon Screech
Häftad, 2012
810 kr
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This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously …
Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns
Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Av Isaac Titsingh, Timon Screech
Häftad, 2009
936 kr
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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 …
Lens Within the Heart
The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
Häftad, 2002
1386 kr
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Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of …
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Av C.P. Thunberg, Timon Screech
Inbunden, 2005
2585 kr
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This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously …
Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns
Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Av Isaac Titsingh, Timon Screech
Inbunden, 2005
2585 kr
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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 …
Global Japanese History and Culture
De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present
Av Oliver White, Mai Kataoka m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2585 kr
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Spanning prehistory to the present, concise chapters by established and emerging scholars trace the movement of people, texts, images, beliefs, and commodities in and out of Japan, and beyond.From ancient trade routes to contemporary pop culture, Japan has always been connected. This book reframes …
Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns
Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Av Isaac Titsingh, Timon Screech
E-bok, 2006
1140 kr
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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 …
Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns
Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822
Av Isaac Titsingh, Timon Screech
E-bok, 2006
1115 kr
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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 …
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Av C.P. Thunberg, Timon Screech
E-bok, 2012
956 kr
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This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the …
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Av C.P. Thunberg, Timon Screech
E-bok, 2012
977 kr
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This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the …
Lens Within the Heart
The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
E-bok, 2018
1462 kr
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Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan''s closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of …
Lens Within the Heart
The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
E-bok, 2018
1462 kr
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Presenting a revised edition with a new preface of this important work, previously available only in hardback. It has long been assumed that Japan''s closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular the Western, world. However, this study of …
Shogun Avatar
The Worship of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Early Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2026
958 kr
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Shogun Avatar explores the transformation of Japan’s first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), from warlord to deity. Although deifications had become largely obsolete, Ieyasu’s death in 1616 triggered a remarkable series of events: He was declared a Shintō god, or Great Bright Kami, but almost …
