The Lens Within the Heart
The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan
2nd edition
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelenswithinheartw0000scre
- ISBN-100824825942
- ISBN-139780824825942
- Goodreads1263278
- LibraryThing2097873
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002017303
- OCLC Control Number48761739
- Better World Books9780824825942
- Open LibraryOL8161707M
Classifications
- LCCN7353.5.S4 2002
- LCCN7353.5 .S4 2002
Description
"It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that the country was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular, the western world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirrors, had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech offers interpretations of 18th century thought through popular objects, and makes propositions which many scholars considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996. The conclusions reached here have yet to be substantially challenged."--BOOK JACKET.
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