Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850

In Engaging the Other: "e;Japan and Its Alter-Egos"e;, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the "e;Iberian irruption,"e; the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a par...