EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊
The article analyzes the role of Dejima, in Nagasaki, as a historical device for cultural contact between Edo-period Japan and the European world, proposing that the institutionally controlled “window” of the Dutch trading post not only transmitted Western knowledge to the archipelago but also resha...
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| description | The article analyzes the role of Dejima, in Nagasaki, as a historical device for cultural contact between Edo-period Japan and the European world, proposing that the institutionally controlled “window” of the Dutch trading post not only transmitted Western knowledge to the archipelago but also reshaped Japanese visual and intellectual practices. Drawing on Western records, notably the descriptions of Engelbert Kaempfer, the author examines how the observation, curation, and translation of the “Japanese world” produced by European travelers fed informational circuits that returned to Europe. The study then shifts its focus to visual works created approximately 140 years later, centered on a Japanese artist linked to the scientific and cultural mediation associated with Philipp Franz von Siebold. The method articulates a historiographical reading of Japanese sources (including translated documents) with a comparative analysis of content and style, in order to capture continuities and transformations as Dejima’s trade intensified and subsequently stabilized at more moderate levels. It concludes that Dejima functioned simultaneously as an import center and a collection hub for information, producing lasting impacts on Japanese material culture and artistic production, while also contributing to Japan’s internationalization in the European gaze. |
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| spelling | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 The article analyzes the role of Dejima, in Nagasaki, as a historical device for cultural contact between Edo-period Japan and the European world, proposing that the institutionally controlled “window” of the Dutch trading post not only transmitted Western knowledge to the archipelago but also reshaped Japanese visual and intellectual practices. Drawing on Western records, notably the descriptions of Engelbert Kaempfer, the author examines how the observation, curation, and translation of the “Japanese world” produced by European travelers fed informational circuits that returned to Europe. The study then shifts its focus to visual works created approximately 140 years later, centered on a Japanese artist linked to the scientific and cultural mediation associated with Philipp Franz von Siebold. The method articulates a historiographical reading of Japanese sources (including translated documents) with a comparative analysis of content and style, in order to capture continuities and transformations as Dejima’s trade intensified and subsequently stabilized at more moderate levels. It concludes that Dejima functioned simultaneously as an import center and a collection hub for information, producing lasting impacts on Japanese material culture and artistic production, while also contributing to Japan’s internationalization in the European gaze. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles April 2007 William Shang |
| spellingShingle | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 William Shang |
| title | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_autocomplete | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_full | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_fullStr | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_full_unstemmed | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_short | EAST-WEST CULTURAL CONTACT AT DEJIMA : INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND IMPACT IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
| title_sort | east-west cultural contact at dejima : intellectual exchange and impact in edo period japan出島的中西文化接觸：日本江戶時代的才智交流與沖擊 |
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