英訳版『特命全権大使 米欧回覧実記』（全５巻） The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873 : A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe

Kunitake, Kume/ Healey, Graham (EDT)/ Tsuzuki, Chushichi (EDT)

RoutledgeCurzon（2002/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 2040 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780700717125
• DDC分類 952.03

基本説明

明治政府太政官記録掛の刊行になる岩倉使節団の報告書。政治、経済、産業、軍事、教育、宗教、文化などあらゆる分野に関する見聞と洞察が綴られ、日本の近代国家創出の過程を明らかにする。初の翻訳版。
Volume I: The United States of America/ Volume II: Britain/ Volume III: Continental Europe, 1/ Volume IV: Continental Europe, 2/ Volume V: Continental Europe, 3.

Full Description

This is the first English translation of the official report submitted by the Iwakura Embassy to the Meiji government. The five volume report was first published in Japanese in 1878. Between 1977 and 1982, Iwanami Shoten published a Japanese language library edition which enabled academics worldwide to evaluate how this mission changed the course of Japanese history during, and after, the Meiji era.The 50-member Embassy, led by Iwakura Tomomi, visited the United States and 12 major European countries in search of ways in which Japan could modernize her social and economic infrastructure. In each country the Embassy visited, it investigated that nation's political and military situation as well as the state of the economy, industry, education, culture and religion. After a total of 22 months abroad, the Embassy returned home in September 1873. This new English-language edition of the Embassy's report will undoubtedly open up avenues for further research and study by scholars throughout the world. The publication of this monumental piece of work will not only attract Western scholars of Japan, but will also be of wider importance for its remarkable first-hand demonstration and explanation of the emergence of a modern industrial nation, as well as its detailed and acute observations on the social and economic infrastructure of the countries visited.

Contents

Volume I. The United States of America Translated by Martin Collcutt, Princeton University 440 pp. 57 plates, maps & sketches Volume II. Britain Translated by Graham Healey, University of Sheffield 416 pp. 64 plates & sketches Volume III. The Countries of Europe 1 (France, Belgium, Holland, Germany) Translated by Andrew Cobbing, Kyushu University 384 pp. 65 plates Volume IV. The Countries of Europe 2 (Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Austria) Translated by Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge 440 pp. 85 plates Volume V. The Countries of Europe 3 (Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Asian Countries, Hong Kong, Shanghai) Translated by Eugene Soviak, Washington University, St Louis 360 pp. 38 plates