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Subjects:

Japan -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Noncitizens -- Japan -- History.
National characteristics, Japanese -- History.
Other (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.
Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1600-1868.

Contents:

Introduction : between engagement and imagination
Interlude : a pair of parables
Mapping the margins : the ragged edges of state and nation
Imagining and imaging "anthropos"
Indianizing Iberia/performing Portugal : responses to the Iberian irruption
Parades of difference/parades of power
The birth of the hairy barbarian : ethnic slur as cultural marker
The mountain that needs no interpreter : Mt. Fuji and the foreign
Epilogue : antiphonals of identity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2019).

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Other format:

Print version: Toby, Ronald P., 1942- author. Engaging the other

ISBN:

9789004393516
900439351X
9789004390621

Publisher Number:

99980818813

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.