Some remarks on the texts by foreigners on Japan up to the end of the Nineteenth Century. How they changed the image of Japan abroad and the impact they had on the landscape sensibilities of the japanese

In this paper, the author outlines the accounts, including pictures and photographs, of foreigners in Japan to point out some problems regarding the image of Japan as perceived by foreigners, especially westerners. During the isolationist policy of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth cen...

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Main Author: Keiichi Takeuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEG 1998-06-01
Series:Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia
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Online Access:http://www.ceg.ul.pt/finisterra/numeros/1998-65/65_11.pdf