Japan as Seen by American Women (ES 5-vol. set) - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 4861661161 ISBN 13: 9784861661167

Casa editrice: Edition Synapse, 2012

Riassunto

This is the second set of the series which collects publications by Christian missionary women, both missionary wives and female missionaries, who worked in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Many Christian missionaries came to Japan after the Meiji restoration in 1868. Although they were not able to convert many Japanese, they played a significant role in the rapid Westernization of Japan. In particular, women missionaries took leading roles in activities relating to local women and children in Japan, and they left an important and indelible mark in the history of the education of Japanese women and children.

This second collection in the series includes thirteen works on Japan by American women in the missions. Authors of those books observed rapid changes in Japanese society and not only reported the facts, but also gave detailed analyses of the background to them. Their observations illustrate these women’s great curiosity, genuine concern for the local society, and their positive attitude in trying to comprehend a very different culture. The contents covered by each book are broad, most of them refer not only to the missionary activities, but try to introduce Japan in general, as well as the historical and religious background, and the daily life of ordinary people and the situation of Japanese women.

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Contenuti:

Volume 1: (c.475pp.)

Nevius, Helen S. Coan

Visit to Japan, Chapter IX & X from Our Life in China

New York: R. Carter, 1869, 70pp.

Pruyn, Mary

Grandmamma’s Letters from Japan

Boston: James H. Earles Publishers, 1877, 219pp.

Mason, Clara Arthur

Etchings from Two Lands

Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886, 180pp.

Volume 2: (c.450pp.)

Carrothers, Mrs. J. D. ,

Kesa and Saijiro, Lights and Shades of Life in Japan

New York: American Tract Society, 1888, 442pp.

Volume 3: (c.540pp.)

Baucus, Georgiana

In Journeyings Oft: A Sketch of the Life and Travels of Mary C. Nind

2nd ed., Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings, 1899, 350pp.

Pierson, Mrs. L.H.

A Quarter of a Century in the Island Empire; or, The Progress of a Mission in Japan

Tokyo: Methodist Pub. House, 1899, 185pp.

Volume 4: (c. 500pp.)

Ella Gardner

Life in Japan as seen through a Missionary’s Spectacles in the Twilight of the 19th century

Nashville: Cumberland Presbyterian Pub. House, 1900, 195pp.

Schneder, Anna Margaret

O Mura San, with a Glimpse of the Country in which She Lived

Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Church in the United States, 1905, 110pp.

Smelser, Mr. and Mrs. F.L.

Miracles of Grace in Japan

Kansas City: F. Hudson, 1908, 195pp

Volume 5:

Ballagh, Margaret Tate Kinnear

Glimpses of Old Japan, 1861-1866

Tokyo: Methodist Pub. House, 1908, 130pp.

Montgomery, Helen Barrett

The Empire of the East

London: Methuen, 1908, 307pp.

Pierson, Mrs. Geo P.,

"Dan=Dan"? How to Present Christ to Unbelievers

Yokohama: Fukuin Printing, 1909, 16pp.

Bauernfeind, Suzan M.

Wayside Sowing: An Illustrated Story of the Work in Mukojima,

Tokyo [Cleveland]: Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association,

1910, 125pp.

Montgomery, Helen Barrett

Western Women in Eastern Land; An Outline Study of Fifty Years of Women’s Work in Foreign Missions

New York: Macmillan, 1910

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• Editore: Edition Synapse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 4861661161
• ISBN 13: 9784861661167
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Redattore: Kohiyama Rui