Japan and the West: The First 500 Years // Japanese History Documentary (1298 - 1854)

Written by Thomas Lockley

Edited, script edited and narrated by David Kelly

Art by Matthew Cartwright

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Citations and sources:

Aizawa Seishisai: H. Paul Varley (2000). Japanese Culture, 4th Edition. University of Hawai'i Press; Updated and Exp edition (2000).

The Travels of Marco Polo (1298)

Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan

Olof G. Lidin

NIAS Press, 2002

The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier

by Coleridge, Henry James, 1822-1893

Toyotomi Hideyoshi quote: Japan: A Documentary History: The Dawn of History to the Late Tokugawa Period, edited by David J. Lu (Armonk, New York:

M. E. Sharpe, 1997) pg 196-197

Memorials of the Empire of Japon in the xvi and xvii Centuries, ed. with notes by T. Rundell. London: Hakluyt Society. 1850.

Part II. The Letters of William Adams 1611 to 1617. Pages 17 – 88

Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe. A dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman curia (1590). Edited by Derek Massarella and translated by J. F. Moran. (The Hakluyt Society. Ser. 3, 25.) Colloquium IX

Anthony Farrington

The English Factory in Japan, 1613-1623

The Invention of Religion in Japan

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

University of Chicago Press, Oct 3, 2012

(Quotes from extract of Arai Hakuseki, Tidings from the West)

Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 2 1985, Japanese Interpretation of the American Revolution (Tadashi Aruga) pg. 6

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