Engelbert Kaempfer's trip to Japan (1690-1692): drawings and notes on an impenetrable country

• Published in: Anales de Historia del Arte
• Main Author: Sanz Guillén, Alejandro M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ediciones Complutense 2020
• Subjects: Engelbert Kaempfer; Japan; Edo period; drawings; etchings; Japón; periodo Edo; dibujos; grabados; Inaccessible Islands; Inaccesibles; Inaccesibles islas
• Online Access: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ANHA/article/view/72186

From 1639, and until de mid-nineteenth century, Japan maintained an isolationist foreign policy and all relations with the Western countries, originated nearly one hundred years before, were broken. The Japanese government only made an exception with the Dutch East India Company, who had the privile...