The Deer Cry Pavilion - Hardcover

Barr, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333033663 ISBN 13: 9780333033661

Publisher: Macmillan, 1968

Synopsis

It was the Emperor Meiji's restoration to the throne in 1868 that ushered in the long period of 'Enlightened Government' which saw thousands of Westerners crossing Japan's threshold to witness the country's modernisation. This title describes a country hurtling thru centuries of change in just a few decades.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Until Mutsuhito ascended to the imperial throne in 1868, the Japanese people, since 1636, had been forbidden to travel abroad and to communicate with foreigners. But Mutsuhito welcomed the technological advances of the West and Western eagerness to trade, and under his reign (1868-1905), Japan emerged as a modern industrialized nation. Barr ( To China with Love: The Lives and Times of Protestant Missionaries in China ) examines the accounts of Westerners who witnessed and participated in this transformation in a variety of roles: as businessmen, as emissaries of Western governments, as teachers or missionaries, as tourists. Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman who had previously explored Hawaii and New Zealand, braved the remoter regions of Japan with the aid of a single native guide; Lafcadio Hearn, an Irishman, wrote 14 books on Japan, married a Japanese woman and became a Japanese citizen. Barr skillfully interweaves the observations of these adventurers to provide an intriguing perspective on tumultuous and fateful changes. Illustrated.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333033663
• ISBN 13: 9780333033661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288