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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (2006)
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Screech, T. (Ed.). (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203099858

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous... Read More about Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.

Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796 (2005)
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Screech, T. (Ed.). (2005). Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203020357

This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spen... Read More about Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796.