xi, 204 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

The furthest goal : Engelbert Kaempfer's encounter with Tokugawa Japan / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella.

A world elsewhere : Europe's encounter with Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Derek Massarella.

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The furthest goal : Engelbert Kaempfer's encounter with Tokugawa Japan / Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Derek Massarella.

A world elsewhere : Europe's encounter with Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Derek Massarella.