To
All Non-Professional Students of the East

CONTENTS

Illustrations
Plate I. Title page of Kaempfer's The History of Japan (1727).
Plate II. Table XXXII from Kaempfer's History showing him dancing before Shogun Tsunayoshi (behind the screens, "3" and "4") in "Jedo" Castle.
Plate III. Table XLV from Kaempfer's History. Letters "A,B,C..." and numerals "1,2,3..." are added.
Plate IV. Comparison of elements in Swift and Kaempfer syllabaries; see Plates III and V.
Plate V. Diagram of Literary Machine (Gulliver's Travels III), 1726 edition, courtesy of Harvard University Library. Letters "A,B,C..." and numerals "1,2,3..." are added.
[Japanese text]
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page 2
page 3
Foreword
Introduction
I. Purchas and Gulliver's Travels
II. Gulliver's Travels and Kaempfer's The History of Japan
  1. The Nation of Japan
  2. The People of Japan
  3. The Court of Japan
  4. Religion and Morality
  5. Gulliver and Japan
III. Gulliver's Travels and "Alphabeta Japonum"
Appendix: On An Account of the Court and Empire of Japan
Notes

Copyright © 1977 Amherst House
Reprinted with permission.