£676.20

The Travel Journals of Mathilde, Contessa Sallier de La Tour into the Interior of Japan, 1867-1870, including Letters, Notes and Sketches

Retail

Price data last checked 133 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£676 today · previous high £676 · all-time low £636

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 598 days • 598 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 598 days • 8 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £639 (183 days, 30.6%)

Price range: £636 - £676

Price levels: 8 different prices over 598 days

Description

This two-volume book is a collection of previously unpublished primary sources about Japan in the years around the 1868 Meiji restoration from a rare female point of view. The author of the original manuscripts is Contessa Mathilde (1838-1911), the French spouse of the first Italian Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan, Conte Vittorio Sallier de La Tour (1827-1894). Indeed, very little is known about the position of Italy in Japan during these crucial years, but Mathilde’s collection of private sources, such as letters, notes and travel journals casts a new light on different aspects of Italo-Japanese relations: diplomacy, commerce, religion and politics, while describing, with an uncommon enthusiasm and emotion, Japan and its people before they started to embrace modernity. The first manuscript is a set of letters about the trip from Italy to Japan, introducing Mathilde, Vittorio and other members of the small Italian community of Yokohama. The second is an unpolished draft with roughly written notes about Mathilde’s life in Yokohama and Edo (Tokyo). The third is a set of letters addressed to a close friend, where Mathilde opens up her heart and talks about her joys and frustrations. The fourth manuscript is the earliest travel journal written by a woman who traveled in the inner regions of Japan (in 1869 - almost ten years before Isabella Bird’s famous Unbeaten Tracks in Japan), full of vivid descriptions and interesting insights about practical and political matters. The fifth manuscript is a travel journal about a trip by sea to Western Japan (Osaka, Kobe, Nagasaki) through the Inland Sea and to China (Shanghai, Amoy and Hong Kong). The first volume of the set includes numerous colour and b/w images, a preface and an introduction in French, the transcriptions of the five sets of documents (written in French as they appear on the original manuscripts) and a collection of Mathilde’s sketches taken during the 1869 trip into the interior of Japan. The second volume includes an English translation of the transcribed documents, a bibliography and an index of names. Each volume includes about 950 explanatory footnotes in both languages. The book will be of great interest for students and scholars of the history of Japanese relations with foreign powers in the nineteenth century.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367756455
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Management > Distribution > Retail
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 May 2021
Listed Since: 01 May 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

The Travel Journals of Mathilde, Contessa Sallier de La Tour into the Interior of Japan, 1867-1870, including Letters, Notes and Sketches

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1861-1869 (Collected Works of Japanologists)

Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865), Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China

Meiji Japan in Global History

Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism: 2031 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018: 150 Years of Association, Engagement and Celebration

Neighbors Across the Pacific: The Development of Economic and Political Relations Between Canada and Japan (Global Perspectives in History and Politics)

Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment (Meiji Japan)

China's Japan Policy: Adjusting To New Challenges

Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature and Society: 3 (Studies on Modern Asia and Africa)

The Political History of Modern Japan: Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics

Japan as Seen by British Women (ES 5-vol. set)

Women and Networks In Nineteenth Century Japan: Volume 90 (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)

Japan 1900. A Portrait in Color

Japan as Seen by American Women in Christian Missions, 1913-1934 (ES 5-vol. set) (Japan As Seen by Western Women in Christian Mission, 3)

The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05

Japanese Women Fiction Writers: Their Culture and Society, 1890s to 1990s: English Language Sources

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity (Routledge Research in Art History)

Great Power Strategy in Asia: Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005

The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History (Columbia Guides to Asian History)

Japan Illustrated, Part 2: 1937-1938 (4-vol. ES set)

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

Routledge - Japan and Britain after 1859: Cultural Bridges