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Author Toby, Ron P

Title Engaging the Other
Published Boston : BRILL, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (423 pages)
Series Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Brill's Japanese studies library.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Word about Language; Figures; Introduction Between Engagement and Imagination; Chapter 1 Interlude: A Pair of Parables; Chapter 2 Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation; 1 Mapping Japan; 2 Where Was Early-Modern "Japan?"; 3 Reprise; 4 Taxonomic Boundaries; 5 Nishikawa Joken's "Japan"; 6 Terajima Ryōan and the Wakan sansai zue; 7 Hayashi Shihei and the "Three Countries"; 8 Margins and Maps; 9 Coda; Chapter 3 Imagining and Imaging "Anthropos"; 1 Imaging Difference at Home; 2 Brave New World: The Panopticon of Peoples in the Myriad Realms
3 The Encyclopedic Vision: Articulate Selves and Typed Others4 Toward a Visual Ethnography of a Myriad Lands; Chapter 4 Indianizing Iberia/Performing Portugal: Responses to the Iberian Irruption; 1 Implicit Others and Manifest Men of Inde; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 Alter Others: Koreans, Okinawans, and Chinese in the Japanese Text; 4 The Invasive Other: Fear of Foreigners and the Changing Iconographic Field; 5 Performative Possibilities in the Age of Encounter; 6 Disengagement and Code-Switching; Chapter 5 Parades of Difference/Parades of Power; 1 Parade Diplomacy
2 Watching the Watchers: Intersecting Gazes in Procession and Parade3 Edo Culture as Parade; 4 Alien Parades; 5 The Internal Structure of an "Alien Parade"; 6 A Documentary Painting Is Not a Sketch; 7 Parade in Review; 8 How to Wrap a Parade; 9 Why Wrap an Alien?; 10 How to Watch a Diplomatic Parade; 11 "'Festival Chinamen' Are More Convincing 'Chinamen'"; 12 Parade-Watching as Festival; 13 The Spectator's Condition; 14 The Well-Tempered Spectator; 15 Watching the Spectators; 16 Seeing and Showing; 17 Four Lines of Sight
Chapter 6 The Birth of the Hairy Barbarian: Ethnic Slur as Cultural Marker1 Initial Encounters and Radical Others; 2 The First Hairy Barbarians; 3 With a Flick of the Razor; 4 Bearded Boundaries; 5 Coxinga's Pate/Chinese Bodies/Tatar Hair; 6 Playing the Hairy Barbarian; 7 Envisioning Hair; 8 Tying Up Loose Ends; Chapter 7 The Mountain That Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Foreign; 1 National Symbols, Found and Made; 2 The Rise of Mt. Fuji; 3 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Mt. Fuji and the Ambit of the Gods; 4 Universal Mt. Fuji as "Scientific" Truth; 5 Mt. Fuji's Growing Reach
6 If the Mountain Won't Come ... : Drawing the Other to Japan7 Preserve and Protect; 8 Kiyomasa Redux; 9 Conclusion; Epilogue Antiphonals of Identity; 1 One Costume/Many Scripts; 2 Capturing "Korea"; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Noncitizens -- Japan -- History
National characteristics, Japanese -- History
Ethnic relations
National characteristics, Japanese
Noncitizens
SUBJECT Japan -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004393516
900439351X