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  D5 Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japan, and English-Language Verse
Chamberlain’s The Classical Poetry of the Japanese (London: Trübner, 1880) was the first knowledgeable study of Japanese poetry in a European language, and together with Bashô [Ap] and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan.
Chamberlain’s equation of the ‘lyric drama’ of Japan with the drama of classical Greece is echoed two decades later in the more famous elaboration of the point by Fenollosa, who acknowledges Chamberlain’s work (see 10b and BK13b).
While it is primarily Chamberlain’s translations that secured his reputation, his many other works about Japan have been widely read, and their importance in shaping the early twentieth-century European and American image of the country was profound.
themargins.net /bib/D/d05.html   (445 words)

  
  Collected Works of F.V. Dickins - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When the Asiatic Society of Japan was founded in 1872, Dickins was one of the founder members, along with Ernest Satow, who was later to achieve fame both as a japanologist and a diplomat and who remained in correspon-dence with Dickins for most of his life.
Japan is as yet far from having attained the qualification necessary to entitle her to rank as a full party to such a compact.
His engagement with Japan, then, which may have been a misfortune for him personally, nevertheless signalled the engagement of an intellect that may at first have ‘fallen in love’ with Japan but that subsequently sought to apply the highest standards of scholarship to the study of Japan.
www.ganesha-publishing.com /dickins_intro.htm   (6791 words)

  
 Asiatic Society of Japan, Home Page
The Society, founded in 1872, holds monthly lectures in English on topics related to Japan or other countries in East Asia.
Please contact The Asiatic Society of Japan concerning interest in addressing the Society, or other queries.
The Asiatic Society of Japan extends its thanks to Tokyo International University for providing this access to the Internet.
www.tiu.ac.jp /~bduell/ASJ   (172 words)

  
 The Japanese in Ayudhya in the first half of the 17th century
He worked in China and Japan as minister plenipotentiary at the end of the nineteenth century, and published a reconstruction of the history of international relations between Japan and Siam in 1885.
We do not know what circumstances convinced Nagamasa to leave Japan, but one of the renditions of his life offers credible motives that are worth being considered, since similar stories might have induced many young Japanese to leave their country in those early days of the Tokugawa period.
The captains of the junks arriving in Japan traveled on different ships in different years; therefore, we might assume that they were hired as free-lance.
www.samurai-archives.com /jia.html   (5524 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nagasaki
Francis Xavier's missionary labours in Japan were confined to the territory now included in the Diocese of Nagasaki -- the ecclesiastical history of this territory is practically identical with the early Christian history of Japan -- the town of Nagasaki appears not to have been visited by the missionaries until 1569.
Father Cousin landed in Japan in 1866, and was the first missionary to penetrate into the Goto Islands.
As the State insists on the attendance of all children between the ages of six and twelve at the secular public primary schools, parochial schools are practically impossible in Japan at present.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10667c.htm   (1632 words)

  
 Bibliography of Daoism (Taoism)
'On the Transmission of the Shen Tzu and of the Yang-sheng yao-chi.' Journal of the Asiatic Society 2: 168-76..
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15/1 (April 2005), 123-25..
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 13/1 (April 2003), 138-40..
www.daoiststudies.org /bibliography.php   (2923 words)

  
 Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch
For links to web pages containing uselful resources for researching Hong Kong's history, see Research Links.
We have been unable to find links to either the Asiatic Society of Madras or the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka.
The Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch, GPO Box 3864, Central, Hong Kong S.A.R.
www.royalasiaticsociety.org.hk /links.htm   (114 words)

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