The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain

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Early Travel Encounters in the Far West

By: Andrew Cobbing

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Hardcover | 5 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.

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Tables and Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Tidings from Afar: Early Travels in the West	p. 1
Japanese Images of Britain During the Sakoku Period	p. 5
Early Overseas Missions	p. 18
Students	p. 20
The First Years of Passport Travel	p. 28
Overseas Travel in the Early Meiji Years	p. 29
The Victorian World on the Voyage to Europe	p. 39
Overseas Travellers and the Japanese Diary Tradition	p. 40
The Voyage to Europe and the British Empire	p. 45
The Age of Steam Through the Eyes of the samurai	p. 64
Early Cultural Encounters in the Victorian World	p. 71
Adventures in Victorian Britain	p. 89
Early Japanese Images of London	p. 90
Tours of Observation	p. 95
Tours of Observation in the Eyes of the Victorian Press	p. 97
Japanese Students in London and their Victorian Mentors	p. 102
The Japanese Boom in London in the Early Meiji Years	p. 110
Japanese Students Outside London	p. 116
Further adventures	p. 124
Return to Japan	p. 145
Student Regulations and the Recall from Britain	p. 147
Later Careers	p. 156
The Matter of Victorian Britain	p. 171
Eikoku Tansaku and the Takenouchi Mission	p. 173
Seiyo Jijo and the Takenouchi Mission	p. 183
Seiyo Bunken Roku and Student Life in Britain	p. 189
Kairan Jikki and the Iwakura Embassy	p. 201
Conclusion	p. 211
Glossary	p. 216
App.: Biographical Notes	p. 218
Notes and References	p. 224
Select Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 255
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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