From 1639 to 1854, to the western world, it appeared that Japan had closed itself to the world. But from their perspective, Japan had plenty of interaction with the outside world. Kokugaku and Rangaku, the most prominent intellectual movement of the Edo period was developed during their so called "isolationist" period, Sakoku.
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0:00 Introduction
0:50 Was Japan really isolated?
2:29 Why Sakoku?
4:03 Effects of Ming Dynasty's fall
6:15 Origin of Rangaku
9:04 Pressure to open up
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📚SOURCES:
Tashiro Kazui & Susan Downing Videen, 1982, Foreign Relations during the Edo Period: Sakoku Reexamined
Annick Horiuchi, 2003, When Science Develops outside State Patronage: Dutch Studies in Japan at the Turn of the Ninteenth Century
John W. Dower, 2010, The Opium War in Japanese Eyes
Marius B. Jansen, 1984, Rangaku & Westernization
Brett L. Walker, 1996, Reappraising the "Sakoku" Paradigm
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