Special Lecture: East Meets West: 1838

Special Lecture: East Meets West: 1838

February 17, 2005

Special Lecture: East Meets West: 1838
Donald Keene (Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature Emeritus, Columbia University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

In the spring of 1838, members of the Dutch trading station on Deshima made their annual visit to Edo. The questions and answers of the interview between the head of the station and various Japanese intellectuals were recorded by the painter Watanabe Kazan. They reveal how desperately eager the Japanese were to find out whatever they could about the Mysterious West.

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