井底之蛙

1/19/2009

Weird pictures

Filed under: — Alan Baumler @ 2:53 pm Print
Sumo Guys?

Sumo Guys?

BibliOdyssey has a post up on European images of 17th century Japan. Yes, I know. Who cares about Japan? There is also a link to an older post on Athanasius Kircher and his images of “China” with a nice set of links.

2 Responses to “Weird pictures”

  1. Frog in a Well - The Japan History Group Blog says:
    1/19/2009 at 10:10 pm

    [...] Baumler pointed me to peacay’s recent post of Dutch images of 17th century Japan. Some of them are quite [...]

  2. Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog says:
    3/1/2009 at 4:53 pm

    [...] is a bit of a puzzle for our readers to clear up. A while back I pointed at a nice collection of 17th Century Dutch pictures of Japan. Jonathan Dresner was rather surprised [...]

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