Japan and the Pacific, 1540û1920: Threat and Opportunity

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ISBN: 9780754636830 | 0754636836
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Copyright: 5/28/2006

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This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images and association that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean. The studies selected for inclusion, along with the introduction, explain how the Pacific Ocean nurtured images of both threat and opportunity to the island nation that it surrounds.

Acknowledgements

vii

General Editors' Preface

Introduction

PART ONE JAPANESE VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC

1 Maps and Metaphors of the 'Small Eastern Sea' in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)

Marcia Yonemoto

(20)

2 Japan Discovers Australia: The Emergence of Australia in the Japanese World-View, 1540's-1900

Henry Frei

(28)

PART TWO DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS

3 Sakai, East Asia's Largest Trading City: Where Did All the Riches Go?

Tsunoyama Sakae

(8)

4 A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592-1617

W. Michael Mathes

(30)

5 The Entrenchment of the Concept of 'National Seclusion'

Arano Yasunori

(22)

6 Exports of Japan's Silver to China via Korea and Changes in the Tokugawa Monetary System During the 17th and 18th Centuries

Tashiro Kazui

109

(18)

7 Early Russo-Japanese Relations

George Alexander Lensen

127

(36)

8 On the Nature of Western Progress: The Journal of the Iwakura Embassy

Eugene Soviak

163

(28)

9 The Meiji Letters of Tsuda Ume, Pioneer Educator of Women

Christine Chapman

191

(8)

10 East Meets East: The Soejima Mission to China, 1873

Wayne C. McWilliams

199

(42)

PART THREE EXPANSION AND DIASPORA

11 Ayutthaya and Japan: Embassies and Trade in the Seventeenth Century

Nagazumi Yoko

241

(18)

12 The Japanese Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century: According to Jesuit Sources

Madalena Ribeiro

259

(32)

13 Strangers in a Strange Land: Japanese Castaways and the Opening of Japan

Stephen W. Kohl

291

(14)

14 The Opening of Korea and the Kanghwa Treaty of 1876

Brahm Swaroop Agrawal

305

(18)

15 Four Japanese: Their Plans for the Expansion of Japan to the Philippines

Joseja M. Saniel

323

(12)

16 Japanese Across the Sea: Features of Japanese Emigration to the Russian Far East, 1875-1916

Igor R. Sareliev

335

(20)

17 Ameyuki-san: Japanese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century America

Ichioka Yuji

355

(22)

18 The Origin and Development of Japanese Settlement in Papua and New Guinea, 1890-1914

Iwamoto Hiromitsu

377

(38)

Index

415

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