General


  There is a full bibliography of Western-language works on Rangaku and Japanese science in Goodman 1986  

J. R. Bartholemew 1976, 'Why was there no scientific revolution in Tokugawa Japan?', JSHS 15: 111-125

J. R. Bartholemew 1989, The formation of science in Japan: bulding a research tradition (Yale UP)

W. J. Boot 2008, ‘Shizuki Tadao’s Sakoku-ron’, in Boot, ed, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

W. J. Boot & W.G.J. Remmelink (eds) 2008, The patriarch of Dutch learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

C. R. Boxer 1950, Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1600-1750, second edition (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff)

L. Blusse, W. Remmelink & I. Smits (eds) 2000, Bridging the divide. 400 years: The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden: Hotei Publishing)

M. Chaiklin 2003, Cultural commerce and Dutch commercial culture: the influence of European material culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden: research School CNWS)

T. Doke 1973, 'Yoan Udagawa: a pioneer scientist of early 19th century feudalistic Japan', JSHS 12: 99-120

C. L. French 1974, Shiba Kokan: artist, innovator, and pioneer in the Westernization of Japan (New York: Weatherhill)

C. L. French 1977, Through closed doors: Western influence on Japanese art 1639-1853 (Rochester, Michigan: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University)

Fung Kam-Wing 2008, ‘The translation of Western scientific terminology in the Japanese and Chinese astronomical treatises in the 17th and 19th century’, in F. Casalin, ed., Linguistic exchanges between Europe, China and Japan (Rome: Tiellemedia Editore)

G. K. Goodman 1952, 'A translation of Otsuki Gentaku's Ransetsu Benwaku', Occasional Papers (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan) 3: 71-99

G. K. Goodman 1986, Japan: the Dutch experience (Athlone Press, London; a revised edition of The Dutch impact on Japan published by E.J.Brill, Leiden, in 1967)

R. H. van Gulik 1938, 'Miura Baien on Indian and Dutch poetry', MN 1: 173-7

R. H. Hesselink 1995, 'A Dutch new year at the Shirando academy: 1 January 1795', MN 50: 189-234

A. Horiuchi 1987, 'La science calendérique de Takebe Katahiro (1664-1739)', Historia scientiarum 33: 3-24

A. Horiuchi 2003, ‘When science develops outside state patronage: Dutch studies in Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century,’ Early science and medicine 8: 148-72

A. Horiuchi 2006, ‘L’apprentissage du hollandaise au Japon au debut du XIXe siecle’, in A. Horiuchi, ed., Education au Japon et en Chine (Paris: Les Indes Savantes), pp. 77-98

M. B. Jansen 1957, 'New materials for the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Japan', HJAS 20: 567-597

M. B. Jansen 1984, 'Rangaku and Westernization', MAS 18: 541-553

H. Johnson 2004, Western influence on Japanese art: the Akita ranga school (Leiden: Hotei)

C. Kamatani 1995, 'Sake brewing and its records in Edo Japan', Historia scientiarum 56: 117-125

K. Katagiri 1974, 'The schools of Rangaku scholars', JSHS 13: 9-68

N. Kawajiri 1981, 'The acceptance of the Christian view of science by a Japanese in the Tokugawa era: the establishment of Sho-sho-gaku by Gokan Uchida', Historia scientiarum 21: 67-86

D. Keene 1969, The Japanese discovery of Europe, second edition (Stanford UP)

S. Kohsaka 2000, 'Die Verwandlung des japanischen Wissenssystems durch die Rezeption der hiolio-zentrischen Theorie', in S. Kohsaka & J. Laube, eds, A history of Japan (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz)

J. MacLean 1973, 'Natural science in Japan. I. Before 1830', Annals of Science 30:257-298

J. MacLean 1974, 'The introduction of books and scientific instruments into Japan, 1712-1854', JSHS 13: 9-68

J. MacLean 1975, 'Natural science in Japan from 1828 to 1849', Janus 62: 51-78

R. Matsumoto & E. Kiyooka  (trans) 1969, Dawn of Western Science in Japan (Sugita Genpaku's Rangaku kotohajime), (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press)

S. Miyashita 1975, 'A bibliography of the Dutch medical books translated into Japanese', Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 25: 8-72

S. Nakamura 1984, 'New concepts of life of the post-Kansei intellectuals: scholars of Chinese classics', MAS 18: 619-630

E. Nakamura 2008, ‘Working the Siebold network: Kusumoto Ine and Western learning in nineteenth-century Japan,’ JS 28: 197 – 211

S. Nakayama 1969, A history of Japanese astronomy: Chinese background and Western impact, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs 18 (Harvard UP)

S. Nakayama 1978, 'Japanese scientific thought', in C. C. Gillespie, ed, Dictionary of scientific biography vol 15, supplement 1 (New York), pp. 728-58

L. Nenzi 2011, ‘Caught in the spotlight: the 1858 comet and late Tokugawa Japan’, JF 23: 1-23

Netherlands Association for Japanese Studies (ed) 1978, Philipp Franz von Siebold; a contribution to the study of the historical relations between Japan and the Netherlands (Centre for Japanese Studies, Leiden University)

J. Numata 1982, ‘Studies of the history of Yôgaku: a bibliographical essay’, AA 42: 75-101

J. Numata 1992, Western learning: a short history of the study of Weestern science in early modern Japan, trans. R. C. J. Bachofner (Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Institute)

Park Seong-Rae 1992, ‘Korea-Japan Relations and the History of Science and Technology’, Korea Journal 32.4: 80-88

H. Paul 1977, 'De Coningh on Deshima: Mijn Verbliff in Japan, 1856', MN 32: 347-64

J. Proust 1997, L'Europe au prise du Japon - XVe-XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Albin Michel)

J. Proust 2002, Europe through the prism of Japan: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, trans E. Bell (University of Notre Dame Press)

A. Querido 1983, 'Dutch transfer of knowledge through Deshima: the role of the Dutch in Japan's scientific and technological development during the Edo period', TASJ (4th series) 18: 17-37

R. Rubinger 1982, Private academies of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton UP)

R. Sakamoto 2008, ‘Confucianising science: Sakuma Sho¯zan and wakon yo¯sai ideology,’ JS 28: 213–226

D. Schilling 1942, 'Die erste Tabak in Japan', MN 5.1: 113-143

T. Screech 1996, The Western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan: the lens within the heart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

T. Shiba 2000, 'Dutch chemist Gratama and chemistry in Japan', Historia scientiarum 9: 181-190

P. Sippel 1972, 'Aoki Konyo (1698-1769) and the beginnings of Rangaku', JSHS 11: 127-162

T. C. Smith 1948, 'The introduction of Western industry to Japan during the last years of the Tokugawa period', HJAS 11: 130-152

J. M. Steele 1998, 'On the use of the Chinese Hsuan-ming calendar to predict the time of the eclipses in Japan', BSOAS 61: 527-533

M. Sugimoto & D. L. Swain 1978, Science and culture in traditional Japan, AD 600-1854 (MIT Press)

G. Sugita 1969, Dawn of Western science in Japan (Tokyo: Hokuseido Press)

B. Szczesniak 1944, 'The penetration of the Copernican theory into feudal Japan', JRAS 1944: 52-61

T. Tsukahara 2000, 'The Westernization of chemistry from different angles: an examination of three manuscripts by contemporaries of Yoan Udagawa and his Seimi Kaiso', Historia scientiarum 9: 191-214

W. F. Vande Walle & K. Kasaya (eds) 2001, Dodonaeus in Japan: translation and the scientific mind in the Tokugawa period (Leuven University Press)

F. Vos 1963, 'Dutch influences on the Japanese Language', Lingua 12: 341-388

F. Vos 1971, 'Forgotten foibles - love and the Dutch at Dejima (1641-1854)', in L. Brüll & U. Kemper, eds, Asien: Tradition und Fortschrift, Festschrift for Horst Hammitzsch (Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden)

G. Woldering 2005, ‘Seiyo zasshi (1867-69) – Die erste japanische Zeitschrift’, in S. Kôhn and M. Schönbein, eds., Facetten der japanischen Populär- und Medienkultur 1 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowtz Verlag), pp. 93-126

S. Yajima 1953, 'Dutch Books on Science and Technology brought to Japan in XVIII and XIX Centuries', Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 6: 76-79

T. Yoshida 2002, ‘La science newtonienne selon Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806)’ in F. Girard, A. Horiuchi & M. Macé, eds, Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (xviie-xixe siècles) (Geneva: Droz)


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