トゥーンベリの日本旅行記（英訳） Japan Extolled and Decried : Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776

Thunberg, C.P./ Screech, Timon (EDT)

Routledge（2012/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415515368
• DDC分類 915.20425

基本説明

スウェーデンの著名な植物学者の長崎滞在と江戸参府の記録。江戸視覚文化研究で著名なタイモン・スクリーチの序文・注解付き。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Thunberg's Travels appeared in English in 1795 and was never reprinted. This edition makes available once again his extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

Full Description

This edition makes available once again Thunberg's extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus - of the great fathers of modern science - spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story.

Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun's private physician, Katsuragawa Hoshû, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned to his homeland. Thunberg's 'Travels' appeared in English in 1795 and until now has never been reprinted.

Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

Contents

1.Political and Social Introduction to the period (c. 1775-1800)
2. Specific Background of Thunberg's period in Japan (1775-1776)
3. Life and Intellectual Biography of Thunberg
4. TEXT
Notes
Glossary