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Uitgave: Hotei Publishing nu: KIT Publishers, Amsterdam; voorheen door J.C. Gieben, Amsterdam
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Volume 9
Dismissed as Elegant Fossils
Konoe Nobutada and the Role of Aristocrats in Early Modern Japan
Lee Bruschke-Johnson | | | | |  | | Volume 8
Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga reconsidered
J.P. Lamers, 2001
ISBN 90-74822-22-3
Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) is one of the best-known figures in Japanese history. However, no standard biography existed on this warlord who was the prime mover behind Japan's military and political unification in the late 16th century. Japonius Tyrannus fills the gap in our knowledge about Nobunaga, and the chronological narrative providesa thorough analysis of his political and military career. | | | | |  | | Volume 7
A Study into the Thought of Kôgyô Daishi Kakuban with a Translation of the Gorin kuji myô himitsushaku
H. van der Veere, 2000
ISBN 90-74822-23-1
Kakuban (1095-1144) is the second most important figure in the history of the Shingon sect of Esoteric Buddhism, but there are few studies about him in Western languages. This work contains a biography and a discussion of Kakuban's works, focusing on his doctrines. Although it is widely believed that Kakuban incorporated Amidist ideas and practices into Shingon, this study shows that Kakuban's aim was to explain the practices of other schools from an orthodox Shingon point of view. The translations of Kakuban's major works, the Amida hishaku and the Gorin kuji myô himitsushaku, clearly support this idea. | | | | |  | | Volume 6
Catalogue of Pre-Meiji Books and Maps in Public Collections in the Netherlands
H. Kerlen, 1995
ISBN 90-50634-67-2
An overview of Japanese illustrated books in public Dutch collections with detailed descriptions of nearly 2000 titles and extensive indices.
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The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh Volume I (1785-1811)
Frank Lequin, 1990
ISBN 90-5063-052-9
Volume 5
The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh Volume II (1779-1812)
Frank Pequin, 1992.
ISBN 90-5063-057-x
Although educated in medicine and law, Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812) decided to enter the VOC as a 'Junior Merchant'. From 1779 to 1785, he was Director of the VOC in Japan, where he was detached to the island of Deshima. Titsingh owned the first extensive Japanological collection in Europe, and wrote a tri-lingual series of studies on Japan, as such becoming the first Dutch Japanologist. The two volumes contain 300 letters written by Titsingh. Volume I contains 215 letters covering the years 1785-1811. Only nine of these letters have been published before. Volume II contains 85 letters and covers the years 1779-1812. These letters were written mainly by Titsingh; thirty-eight letters are addressed to Japanese correspondents, six are written by Japanese correspondents. None of these letters have been published before.
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Wybe Kuitert, Themes, Scenes, and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art, 1988.
Out of print | | | | |  | | Volume 2
Zeami's talks on Sarugaku
Erika de Poorter, 2002 (reprint)
ISBN 90-74822-47-9
This work is a translation and study of the important Sarugaku dangi ('Talks on Sarugaku'), a collection of comments by the actor, playwright and critic Zeami (1363-1443) as recorded by his son Motoyoshi. Sarugaku is the original term for Nõ, the classical Japanese theatre of which Zeami is the founding father. The Sarugaku dangi is generally considered as belonging to Zeami's transmitted writings, but more specifically it forms part of his treatises on Nõ. In addition to two letters and a number of Nõ plays, twenty-one of Zeami's writings are known today. These writings were been secretly preserved by a few families, and are also called hidensho ('secretly transmitted writings') or hiden ('secret traditions'). These secret texts were discovered and published from 1908, with the last of Zeami's treatises coming to light in 1956. Sarugaku dangi is a unique source for the history of early Nõ. | | | | | | | Volume 1
Matthi Forrer, Eirakuya Tôshirô, Publisher at Nagoya: A Contribution to the History of Publishing in 19th Century Japan, 1985.
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