Japanese World View
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About This Novel
Marius Jensen uses the stories of three ordinary characters, Sugita Genpaku, Kuni Kunitake, and Matsumoto Shigeharu, as the main line to analyze how the Japanese re-understood the world in the mid-Tokugawa period, the early Tokugawa period, the early Meiji period, and the postwar Showa period, and traced the ideological and psychological historical roots of the Japanese worldview. Genpaku Sugita gave up traditional Chinese medicine and turned to translating Dutch anatomy works. Kumi Kunitake traveled to the West with the envoys but eventually lost his teaching position because his works were disrespectful to the emperor. Shigeharu Matsumoto, who experienced World War II, was committed to communicating with the world. Behind the three ordinary characters is the transformation of the entire Japan, and the ups and downs are condensed by Jensen into this small book.
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