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Recognizing the significance of cross-cultural exchange across newly established frontiers, this edited volume explores the purpose and relevance of non-Japanese individuals who operated with or within the samurai class and their role in constructing and communicating identity in early modern Japan.
The volume proposes a largely unexplored methodological lens through which to examine Japanese engagement with foreign others: the samurai class. These essays locate instances of cross-cultural influence, by non-Japanese who conformed to Japanese society or by Japanese people who adopted foreign practices, and identify those individuals responsible for creating such fusion - and, at times, confusion - of values, loyalties, and traditions. This project serves as an examination of foreigners within the warrior class, gathering such studies in a singular volume, to yield vital and timely insight into power dynamics, the performance of identity, and the transmission and translation of cultural ideologies in the early modern world. Topics explored include samurai and the Japanese military class; Portuguese, Dutch, and English merchants in eastern Asia; Jesuit activity in Japan; Japan's invasions of Korea; the reopening of Japan to western contact; European travel accounts; artistic and textual representation of Japan; and the Boshin War.
This volume appeals to a range of scholars, both those from European and eastern Asian studies and of the 16th-19th centuries. The collection is well suited for graduate students of Japanese history, identity in the early modern period, or global exploration and commercial enterprise.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Otherness, Identity, and Experience within the Warrior Class in Early Modern Japan
Samantha Perez
Part One: Redefining Service to the State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter One
The Legacy of Korean-born Samurai in Early Edo Society
David Nelson
Chapter Two
Christian and Non-Christian Samurai in the 16th Century: Takayama Ukon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Jesuit Missionaries
Jonathan López-Vera
Chapter Three
A Fowle Mouthed Dutchman in the Shogun's Court: Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (1556-1623), Merchant and Samurai in Seventeenth Century Japan
Gary Leupp
Chapter Four
A Very Foreign, Foreign Vassal: Williams Adams as Tokugawa Clansman
Thomas Lockley and Lúcio de Sousa
Chapter Five
Apostasy and Identity: Giuseppe Chiara in Service to the Japanese State
Samantha Perez
Chapter Six
Honorary Daimyo: The Yearly Court Journey to Edo and Dutch Attendance on the Shogun
Michael Laver
Part Two: Constructing Images of Otherness in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Seven
From Interpreter to Samurai: Henry Schnell's Life Across the Meiji Revolution
Mariko Fukuoka
Chapter Eight
Reading Georges Bigot as a Samurai
Katsuya Izumi
Chapter Nine
Shadows Behind the Sliding Screen: Reinventing the Samurai in Mid-Nineteenth Century British Travel Accounts
Annabel Storr
Chapter Ten
"What is Most Difficult to Understand?": Lafcadio Hearn and Samurai Education
Matthew Paul Smith
Index
