ABSTRACT
This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Forgotten Practices of the Past
Kaempfer's Strange Description of the Japanese Emperor
chapter |36 pages
The History of The History
The Purchase and Publication of Engelbert Kaempfer's The History of Japan Derek Massarella
