| #1601709 in Books | Univ of Hawaii Pr | 1999-04-01 | 1999-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.27 x7.03 x9.99l,2.49 | File type: PDF | 560 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| What a great find! Anyone interested in the Edo Period will ...|By Sonja Anderson|What a great find! Anyone interested in the Edo Period will find this fascinating. Dr. Kaempfer's first-hand reporting is not only reliable, from what other scholarly reports have claimed, but he is funny and human, too. I have enjoyed this thoroughly.|5 of 7 people found the following review hel||[This] translation gives a fresh view of Kaempfer and his magnum opus.... Well deserves a place on many shelves.-- "Monumenta Nipponica"
Robust and meticulously crafted-- "The Historian"
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Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691 and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer, "an astonishing amount o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed | Engelbert Kaempfer. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
