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Red-Haired Barbarians. The Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865

Books and Links

Reading suggestions

A recent and very informative publication on these prints and their backgrounds is:
Willem van Gulik, Nederlanders in Nagasaki - Japanse prenten uit de 19de eeuw / The Dutch in Nagasaki - 19th-century Japanese Prints (Amsterdam 1998)

Some older general publications:
H. Bosma, F.K. Lotgering, J. Vrieze, Kômô-jin, Roodharige vreemdelingen op Deshima. Nagasaki prenten en schilderingen uit de 18e en 19e eeuw (Franeker 1983)
F.K. Lotgering, 'Vreemdelingen in Japan. Aantekeningen bij een verzameling van Nagasaki- en Yokohama-kleurenhoutsneden', in: Economisch en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek, vol 41, p. 154-174 (Amsterdam 1978)

More general publications:
W.R. van Gulik, J.L. Blussé, Th.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, In het spoor van de Liefde. Japans-Nederlandse ontmoetingen sinds 1600 / In the wake of The Liefde: cultural relations between the Netherlands and Japan, since 1600 (Amsterdam 1986)
Hiroshi Higuchi, Nagasaki Ukiyo-e (Tokyo 1971)
Masanobu Hosono, Nagasaki Prints and Early Copperplates (Tokyo 1978)
Julia Meech-Pekarik, The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization (New York, 1986)
Oranda: de Nederlanden in Japan (1600-1868) (Brussel 1989)
J. Stellingwerff, De diepe wateren van Nagasaki. Nederlands-Japanse betrekkingen sedert de Stichting van Deshima (Franeker 1983)
Ann Yonemura, Yokohama. Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan (Washington 1990)

Links

Here are just a few suggestions:
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Dejima: The Island Comes Back to Life (Project to restore Dejima by the city of Nagasaki)
Deshima Re-emerges (Crossroads, a Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture)
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet
The collection of historic photographs of Nagasaki University (Check the box for "Dejima")

See also:
Collections of the International Institute of Social History
Collections of the Netherlands Economic History Archive
Virtual Exhibitions of the International Institute of Social History
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