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    Tokyo Before Tokyo

    Timon Screech

    A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun's city that became modern Tokyo.

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    Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

    Timon Screech

    A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun’s city that became modern Tokyo.

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    The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan

    Timon Screech

    It has long been assumed that Japan’s closed country policy meant that Japan was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular western, world. This study of 18th…

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    Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820

    Timon Screech

    Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. This book offers an assessment of…

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    Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg’s Travels in Japan 1775-1776

    C.P. Thunberg

    Carl Peter Thunberg was a physician with the Dutch East India Company who spent a year living in Japan in the 18th century. Whilst resident there, he became friends with…

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    Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822

    Isaac Titsingh

    This book appeared posthumously in 1822 in English and French. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in 180 years.

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    Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg’s Travels in Japan 1775-1776

    C.P. Thunberg

    This edition makes newly available C.P. Thunberg’s writings on Japan, complete with illustrations. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

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    Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822

    Isaac Titsingh

    This book appeared posthumously in 1822 in English and French. This fully annotated edition makes the original English version available for the first time in 180 years.

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    The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625

    Timon Screech (Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London)

    The story of two extraordinary gifts from King James I of England to the Shogun of Japan - and what this tells us about says about the seventeenth century England…

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    The Artist in Edo: Studies in the History of Art, vol. 80

    Yukio Lippit

    This volume was produced by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Publishing Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington –Colophon.

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