Japan and the Pacific, 1540û1920: Threat and Opportunity

by Koichiro,Matsuda; Caprio,Mark

• ISBN13: 9780754636830
• ISBN10: 0754636836
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
General Editors' Preface	xi
Introduction	xv
PART ONE JAPANESE VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC
1 Maps and Metaphors of the 'Small Eastern Sea' in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
Marcia Yonemoto	1	(20)
2 Japan Discovers Australia: The Emergence of Australia in the Japanese World-View, 1540's-1900
Henry Frei	21	(28)
PART TWO DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
3 Sakai, East Asia's Largest Trading City: Where Did All the Riches Go?
Tsunoyama Sakae	49	(8)
4 A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592-1617
W. Michael Mathes	57	(30)
5 The Entrenchment of the Concept of 'National Seclusion'
Arano Yasunori	87	(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