Japan and the Dutch 1600-1853
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Dutch Books
Dutch East India Company
Dutch Language
Dutch Scholars
Dutch Studies
Dutch Translation
Dutch-Japanese cultural interaction
Edo
Edo era intellectual exchange
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Hashimoto Sanai
Held
Honda Toshiaki
Ito Jinsai
Japanese medical knowledge
Kaitai Shinsho
Leiden School
Matsudaira Sadanobu
Nagasaki Bugyo
Nagasaki Interpreters
Neo-Confucianism Japan
Nishikawa Joken
Rangaku studies
Samurai
Shiba Kokan
Tokugawa Period
Tokugawa period history
Van Swieten
Western Astronomy
Western science transmission
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138863217
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
