Euro-japanese cultural relations : from medecine to zograscope

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samedi 28 janvier 2006 [n° 1008]

Source : Wolfgang Michel‘s website. Professor for comparative language and culture studies, faculty of languages and cultures (national university of kyushu).

His research activities include history of euro-japanese cultural exchange; medecine (notably the works of Engelbert Kaempfer) and related sciences in the history of east-west cultural exchange ; history of “Dutch learning (Rangaku) and “western studies” in Japan.

Engelbert Kaempfer: Dissertation. Leiden 1694.


Kaempfer’s doctoral thesis :

Disputatio Medica Inauguralis Exhibens Decadem Observationum Exoticarum, quam [...] pro gradu doctoratus [...] publico examini subjicit Engelbert Kempfer, L. L. Westph. ad diem 22. Aprilis [...] Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Abrahanum Elzevier, Academiae Typographum. MDCXCIV [1694].

Engelbert Kaempfer, Werke. Kritische Ausgabe in Einzelbänden Herausgegeben von Detlef Haberland, Wolfgang Michel, Elisabeth Gössmann

Bibliography : History of Medicine in Japan: Publications in Western Languages collected by W. Michel

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Engelbert Kaempfer: The History of Japan, London 1727 1

Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 – 1716)

I. The Natural History of the Japanese Tea; with an accurate description of that Plant, its culture, growth, preparation, and uses.

II. Of the Paper manufactures of the Japanese. Internet Edition by Wolfgang Michel, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City, Japan. © Nov.1997

Zograscope


“During the 18th and 19th century the “optical prints” or “vues optiques” enjoyed great popularity not only in Europa but also in Japan. There were famous makers of optical viewingdevices and special engravings in Augsburg, Paris, and London. These “zograscopes”, “Guckkasten” etc. basically consisted in a mirror reflecting the print and a magnifying lense. All converging lines were exaggerated in order to create a three dimensional impression.”


Zograscopes Wolfgang Michel, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City, Japan.

Perspective Views originally published in Print Quarterly (June 1985) by Wolfgang Michel, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City, Japan.

See also : Zograscope Viewer and read more on Optical Toys.

En français :

Zograscope encyclopédie Wikipedia

Les vues d’optique traduction de la thèse du Dr Russell Naughton (extrait)

Intercultural relations

Old western maps of Japan :
Totius Orbis Cogniti Universalis Descriptio In: Cosmographia. Amsterdam 1605

History of euro-japanese cultural relations

Euro-japanese cultural contacts : 17th century

Verenigde Oostindische Companie Dutch East India Company

Euro-japanese cultural contacts : 18th century

Euro-japanese cultural contacts : 19th century


Western texts related to Japan

source : Wolfgang Michel, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City, Japan.



  1. J.G. Scheuchzer ed. Engelbert Kaempfer: The History of Japan, London 1727     : this English translation of 1727 was the first publication of Kaempfer’s manuscript “DAS HEUTIGE JAPAN” (Japan of Today) , upon which the following Dutch and French editions were based. [back]
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