Engaging the Other

In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” 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 c...

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In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” 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 paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” ( sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” ( bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.

Acknowledgements
A Word about Language
List of Figures
Introduction: Between Engagement and Imagination
1 Interlude: A Pair of Parables
2 Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation
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Acknowledgements
A Word about Language
List of Figures
Introduction: Between Engagement and Imagination
1 Interlude: A Pair of Parables
2 Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation
1Mapping Japan
2Where Was Early-Modern “Japan?”
3Reprise
4Taxonomic Boundaries
5Nishikawa Joken’s “Japan”
6Terajima Ryōan and the Wakan sansai zue
7Hayashi Shihei and the “Three Countries”
8Margins and Maps
9Coda
3 Imagining and Imaging “Anthropos”
1Imaging Difference at Home
2Brave New World: The Panopticon of Peoples in the Myriad Realms
3The Encyclopedic Vision: Articulate Selves and Typed Others
4Toward a Visual Ethnography of a Myriad Lands
4 Indianizing Iberia/Performing Portugal: Responses to the Iberian Irruption
1Implicit Others and Manifest Men of Inde
2Setting the Stage
3Alter Others: Koreans, Okinawans, and Chinese in the Japanese Text
4The Invasive Other: Fear of Foreigners and the Changing Iconographic Field
5Performative Possibilities in the Age of Encounter
6Disengagement and Code-Switching
5 Parades of Difference/Parades of Power
1Parade Diplomacy
2Watching the Watchers: Intersecting Gazes in Procession and Parade
3Edo Culture as Parade
4Alien Parades
5The Internal Structure of an “Alien Parade”
6A Documentary Painting is Not a Sketch
7Parade in Review
8How to Wrap a Parade
9Why Wrap an Alien?
10How to Watch a Diplomatic Parade
11“‘Festival Chinamen’ Are More Convincing ‘Chinamen’”
12Parade-Watching as Festival
13The Spectator’s Condition
14The Well-Tempered Spectator
15Watching the Spectators
16Seeing and Showing
17Four Lines of Sight
6 The Birth of the Hairy Barbarian: Ethnic Slur as Cultural Marker
1Initial Encounters and Radical Others
2The First Hairy Barbarians
3With a Flick of the Razor
4Bearded Boundaries
5Coxinga’s Pate/Chinese Bodies/Tatar Hair
6Playing the Hairy Barbarian
7Envisioning Hair
8Tying Up Loose Ends
7 The Mountain That Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Foreign
1National Symbols, Found and Made
2The Rise of Mt. Fuji
3On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Mt. Fuji and the Ambit of the Gods
4Universal Mt. Fuji as “Scientific” Truth
5Mt. Fuji’s Growing Reach
6If the Mountain Won’t Come…: Drawing the Other to Japan
7Preserve and Protect
8Kiyomasa Redux
9Conclusion
Epilogue: Antiphonals of Identity
1One Costume/Many Scripts
2Capturing “Korea”
Bibliography
Index
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