Japanese Discovery of America A Brief Biography With Documents Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Map of Japan
Pt. 1	The Japanese Discovery of America	1
	Japan's Isolation Policy	3
	America's Approach to Japan	8
	The Americans as Barbarians	14
	Observing the Americans	18
	Interpreting the Americans	27
	Rejecting the American Model	33
	The American Discovery of Japan	37
Pt. 2	The Documents	43
1	The Policy of Isolation	45
1	From Kirishitan Monogatari (Tales of the Christians), 1639	45
2	Honda Toshiaki, from Keisei hisaku (A Secret Strategy for Ruling the Country), 1798	48
3	Rai San'yo, Dutch Ship (Poem), 1818	50
4	Aizawa Seishisai, from Shinron (New Theses), 1825	52
5	A Bakufu Expulsion Edict, 1825	57
6	Sakuma Shozan, Kaibosaku (A Plan for Coastal Defense), 1842	58
2	American Views of Japan	62
7	Samuel Wells Williams, from "Narrative of a Voyage of the Ship Morrison," 1837	62
8	Aaron Haight Palmer, An American Businessman's View of Japan, 1849	67
9	Report of Japanese Cruelty to American Sailors, 1852	71
3	Japanese Reports about America	73
10	Mitsukuri Shogo, from Konyo zushiki (A World Atlas), 1845-1846	73
11	The Interrogation of a Castaway, ca. 1851	78
12	Hamada Hikozo, from Hyoryuki (The Record of a Castaway), 1863	83
4	The Arrival of the Americans	90
13	From The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1853-1854	90
14	Francis L. Hawks, Official Report of the Perry Expedition, 1856	97
15	Ii Naosuke, Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853	99
16	Tokugawa Nariaki, Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853	102
17	Broadsheet of Sumo Wrestlers Delivering Rice, 1854	106
18	Broadsheet on the "Capture" of the Americans, 1854	108
19	A Comic Dialogue, ca. 1855	110
20	A Black Ship Scroll with Dialogue, ca. 1854	112
21	Report of a Rape, 1854	115
5	The Opening of Trade	117
22	From The Complete Journal of Townsend Harris, 1857-1858	117
23	Hotta Masayoshi, Memorial on the Harris Proposal, 1857	122
24	Yoshida Shoin, from Kyofu no gen (Testimony of a Madman), 1858	125
25	Two American Views on the Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1858/1860	128
26	From The Journal of Francis Hall, 1863	131
27	A Yokohama Print of an American Man and Wife, 1863	133
28	Hashimoto Sadahide, from Yokohama kaiko kenbunshi (A Record of Observations in the Open Port of Yokohama), 1861	135
29	Yokoi Shonan, Proposal for Reforming Japan, 1862	137
30	Yokoi Shonan, Evaluation of Foreign Religion, 1864	140
6	The Bakufu Mission of 1860	145
31	Fukuzawa Yukichi, from The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1898	145
32	Muragaki Norimasa, from Kokai nikki (Diary of a Voyage Abroad), 1860	150
33	Two American Reports on the 1860 Mission, 1860	161
34	Walt Whitman, A Broadway Pageant (Poem), 1860	164
7	The Iwakura Mission of 1871	168
35	Kume Kunitake, Report of the Iwakura Mission, 1878	168
36	Kume Kunitake, from Kume hakase kyujunen kaikoroku (The Memoirs of Professor Kume Kunitake), 1934	179
37	An American Report on the Iwakura Mission, 1872	183
8	America as "Civilization"	185
38	Fukuzawa Yukichi, from Seiyo jijo (Conditions in the West), 1867	185
39	Fukuzawa Yukichi, from Bunmei no gairyaku (An Outline of a Theory of Civilization), 1875	187
40	Nishimura Shigeki, "An Explanation of Twelve Western Words (Part I)," 1875	190
41	Sugi Koji, The Federated States of North and South America, 1874	193
42	Inoue Ryokichi [?], A Japanese Student's Views of the United States, 1872	194
43	William Elliot Griffis, from The Mikado's Empire, 1876	200
	Glossary	205
	Chronology of Japan's Relations with the West	207
	Selected Bibliography	210
	Index	218