Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey (Editor, Translator) Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey is professor of Japanese history and a founding member of the Department of Comparative Culture, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo.
Kaempfer's Japan deserves a broad readership.-- "Japanese
Studies"
[This] translation gives a fresh view of Kaempfer and his magnum
opus.... Well deserves a place on many shelves.-- "Monumenta
Nipponica"
Bodart-Bailey has been scrupulous, and this edition of Kaempfer now
supersedes all others.-- "Japan Times"
Bodart-Bailey's Kaempfer's Japan not only provides a critical
first-hand insight into Tokugawa Japan, but will also serve as the
centerpiece of the expanding scholarship on Kaempfer that has
achieved a resurgence in Japan, the United States, and Europe over
the past two decades-- "Journal of Asian Studies"
Robust and meticulously crafted-- "The Historian"
This full-scale Western gaze on Japan is a triumph of lucid
observation and of judicious information-gathering ... a unique
historical document, a valuable work of reference, and a remarkable
model of cross-cultural understanding achieved under unpropitious
conditions.-- "Japanese Journal of Religious Studies"
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