About the Author

Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey (Editor, Translator) Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey is professor of Japanese history and a founding member of the Department of Comparative Culture, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo.

Reviews

Kaempfer's Japan deserves a broad readership.-- "Japanese Studies"

[This] translation gives a fresh view of Kaempfer and his magnum opus.... Well deserves a place on many shelves.-- "Monumenta Nipponica"

Bodart-Bailey has been scrupulous, and this edition of Kaempfer now supersedes all others.-- "Japan Times"

Bodart-Bailey's Kaempfer's Japan not only provides a critical first-hand insight into Tokugawa Japan, but will also serve as the centerpiece of the expanding scholarship on Kaempfer that has achieved a resurgence in Japan, the United States, and Europe over the past two decades-- "Journal of Asian Studies"

Robust and meticulously crafted-- "The Historian"

This full-scale Western gaze on Japan is a triumph of lucid observation and of judicious information-gathering ... a unique historical document, a valuable work of reference, and a remarkable model of cross-cultural understanding achieved under unpropitious conditions.-- "Japanese Journal of Religious Studies"