Derek Massarella
Biographic Data
| ID | 751091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Massarella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Massarella |
| SIGNATURE | MASSARELLA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chuo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600–1625, by Timon Screech
This book, an explicit attempt to rewrite the early history of the East India Company, aims to ‘put Japan back into a central position in the whole Company thinking’ (p. 7)—‘thinking’ that goes beyond mere trade and reflects the need for ‘the English ... to define who and what they were’ and inform foreign potentates ‘of their existence and importance’ (p. 29). The author, Timon Screech, claims that the company inserted itself consciously and dec…
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
Defensive Positions: The politics of maritime security in Tokugawa Japan
"Defensive Positions: The politics of maritime security in Tokugawa Japan." The Mariner's Mirror, 102(3), pp. 354–355
Envoys and Illusions: The Japanese embassy to Europe, 1582–90, De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium , and the Portuguese viceregal embassy to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1591
On 20 February 1582 when Alessandro Valignano, Visitor to the Jesuit missions in the East Indies (the geographical area from Goa eastwards, to Japan, and southwards, to the Indonesian archipelago) left Japan, the country had been in a state of civil war, (the sengoku jidai ) for more than a century. That was about to change. Oda Nobunaga had succeeded in uniting the central and western parts of Honshu under his rule and was intent on imposing his…
Ticklish Points”: The English East India Company and Japan, 1621
The previously unpublished text of a letter written by John Osterwick in Hirado to Richard Fursland, President of the Council of Defence, around the end of September 1621. Its value lies in the detail which it provides of the state of the English East India Company's factory in Japan, eight years after it was established and two years before it closed
Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…
The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Kaempfer's The History of was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s and was published in London in 1727; it appeared in a total of ten editions of translations and reprints in the decade that followed - an extraordinary achievement for a work of this kind. It became required reading for all serious students of Japan for over a century, and was even on board Commodore Perry's ship in 1852. Today, it remains compulsory readi…
The Furthest Goal: Englebert Kaempfer's Encounter With Tokugawa Japan
Chinese, Tartars and “Thea” or a Tale of Two Companies: The English East India Company and Taiwan in the Late Seventeenth Century
A number of years ago, Dr D. K. Bassett pointed out that the English East India Company's objective in re-entering East Asian waters during the second half of the seventeenth century was the re-establishment of a direct trade with Japan from which the company had withdrawn in 1623. It was a futile pursuit. But, far from being an inconsequential historical footnote, the unintended consequence of this policy was the beginning of a direct trade with…
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s first assistant secretary for foreign correspondence
From its foundation in 1660 the Royal Society had taken seriously its function as a collector and disseminator of information in the Republic of Letters. The Society’s first Letter Book was ordered specifically to be drawn up to include all letters read before the Society and to note any replies that were received. Various ad hoc committees were set up in the early 1660s to deal with foreign correspondence. These developments represented the firs…
The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh: Volume 1 (1785-1811)
The Deshima Diaries Marginalia 1700-1740
The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750
The Japonian Charters. The English and Dutch Shuinjo
O i NE of the most interesting archival discoveries concerning the earliest relations between Japan and Britain is that of the original shuinjo *W Va (vermilion-seal document) issued by Tokugawa Ieyasu [IIS, granting the English East India Company trade privileges in Japan. The document was given to John Saris, commander of the Company's Eighth Voyage, in October 1613 and is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.1 The discovery was made accidentall…
Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859-99: Export Trade and Overseas Competition
The Deshima Dagregisters. Their Original Tables of Contents, 2: 1690-1700
The Loudest Lies’: Knowledge of Japan in Seventeenth-Century England
The comment in the title of this article was made by James I after having been shown a ‘long scrole of fyne paper’, probably a Japanese almanac, and an account of the estates and revenues of the daimyo ‘most of them equally or exceeding the revenues of the greatest princes of Christendom’, and a letter, all of which had been sent by Richard Cocks, head of the English East India Company's factory at Hirado during its entire existence from 1613 to …
Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War
Foreword Abbreviations Part I. The Process of Alienation, 1919-41: 1. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1919-37 Chihiro Hosoya 2. Japan in Britain's view of the international system, 1919-37 Ian Nish 3. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1937-41 Chihiro Hosoya 4. A consideration of Anglo-Japanese relations: Japanese views of Britain, 1937-41 Katsumi Usui, Postscript:…
James I and Japan
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War
Foreword Abbreviations Part I. The Process of Alienation, 1919-41: 1. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1919-37 Chihiro Hosoya 2. Japan in Britain's view of the international system, 1919-37 Ian Nish 3. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1937-41 Chihiro Hosoya 4. A consideration of Anglo-Japanese relations: Japanese views of Britain, 1937-41 Katsumi Usui, Postscript:…
The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Kaempfer's The History of was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s and was published in London in 1727; it appeared in a total of ten editions of translations and reprints in the decade that followed - an extraordinary achievement for a work of this kind. It became required reading for all serious students of Japan for over a century, and was even on board Commodore Perry's ship in 1852. Today, it remains compulsory readi…
The Deshima Diaries Marginalia 1700-1740
The Japonian Charters. The English and Dutch Shuinjo
O i NE of the most interesting archival discoveries concerning the earliest relations between Japan and Britain is that of the original shuinjo *W Va (vermilion-seal document) issued by Tokugawa Ieyasu [IIS, granting the English East India Company trade privileges in Japan. The document was given to John Saris, commander of the Company's Eighth Voyage, in October 1613 and is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.1 The discovery was made accidentall…
James I and Japan
Anglo-Japanese Alienation, 1919-1952: Papers of the Anglo-Japanese Conference on the History of the Second World War
Foreword Abbreviations Part I. The Process of Alienation, 1919-41: 1. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1919-37 Chihiro Hosoya 2. Japan in Britain's view of the international system, 1919-37 Ian Nish 3. Britain and the United States in Japan's view of the international system, 1937-41 Chihiro Hosoya 4. A consideration of Anglo-Japanese relations: Japanese views of Britain, 1937-41 Katsumi Usui, Postscript:…
James I and Japan
The Loudest Lies’: Knowledge of Japan in Seventeenth-Century England
The comment in the title of this article was made by James I after having been shown a ‘long scrole of fyne paper’, probably a Japanese almanac, and an account of the estates and revenues of the daimyo ‘most of them equally or exceeding the revenues of the greatest princes of Christendom’, and a letter, all of which had been sent by Richard Cocks, head of the English East India Company's factory at Hirado during its entire existence from 1613 to …
The Deshima Dagregisters. Their Original Tables of Contents, 2: 1690-1700
The Japonian Charters. The English and Dutch Shuinjo
O i NE of the most interesting archival discoveries concerning the earliest relations between Japan and Britain is that of the original shuinjo *W Va (vermilion-seal document) issued by Tokugawa Ieyasu [IIS, granting the English East India Company trade privileges in Japan. The document was given to John Saris, commander of the Company's Eighth Voyage, in October 1613 and is now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.1 The discovery was made accidentall…
Japan's Industrialization in the World Economy, 1859-99: Export Trade and Overseas Competition
The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750
Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s first assistant secretary for foreign correspondence
From its foundation in 1660 the Royal Society had taken seriously its function as a collector and disseminator of information in the Republic of Letters. The Society’s first Letter Book was ordered specifically to be drawn up to include all letters read before the Society and to note any replies that were received. Various ad hoc committees were set up in the early 1660s to deal with foreign correspondence. These developments represented the firs…
The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh: Volume 1 (1785-1811)
The Deshima Diaries Marginalia 1700-1740
Chinese, Tartars and “Thea” or a Tale of Two Companies: The English East India Company and Taiwan in the Late Seventeenth Century
A number of years ago, Dr D. K. Bassett pointed out that the English East India Company's objective in re-entering East Asian waters during the second half of the seventeenth century was the re-establishment of a direct trade with Japan from which the company had withdrawn in 1623. It was a futile pursuit. But, far from being an inconsequential historical footnote, the unintended consequence of this policy was the beginning of a direct trade with…
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination
Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…
The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Kaempfer's The History of was the result of two years' research in Japan in the early 1690s and was published in London in 1727; it appeared in a total of ten editions of translations and reprints in the decade that followed - an extraordinary achievement for a work of this kind. It became required reading for all serious students of Japan for over a century, and was even on board Commodore Perry's ship in 1852. Today, it remains compulsory readi…
The Furthest Goal: Englebert Kaempfer's Encounter With Tokugawa Japan
Ticklish Points”: The English East India Company and Japan, 1621
The previously unpublished text of a letter written by John Osterwick in Hirado to Richard Fursland, President of the Council of Defence, around the end of September 1621. Its value lies in the detail which it provides of the state of the English East India Company's factory in Japan, eight years after it was established and two years before it closed
Envoys and Illusions: The Japanese embassy to Europe, 1582–90, De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium , and the Portuguese viceregal embassy to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1591
On 20 February 1582 when Alessandro Valignano, Visitor to the Jesuit missions in the East Indies (the geographical area from Goa eastwards, to Japan, and southwards, to the Indonesian archipelago) left Japan, the country had been in a state of civil war, (the sengoku jidai ) for more than a century. That was about to change. Oda Nobunaga had succeeded in uniting the central and western parts of Honshu under his rule and was intent on imposing his…
Defensive Positions: The politics of maritime security in Tokugawa Japan
"Defensive Positions: The politics of maritime security in Tokugawa Japan." The Mariner's Mirror, 102(3), pp. 354–355
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)
The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600–1625, by Timon Screech
This book, an explicit attempt to rewrite the early history of the East India Company, aims to ‘put Japan back into a central position in the whole Company thinking’ (p. 7)—‘thinking’ that goes beyond mere trade and reflects the need for ‘the English ... to define who and what they were’ and inform foreign potentates ‘of their existence and importance’ (p. 29). The author, Timon Screech, claims that the company inserted itself consciously and dec…
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