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<1544 the auther came to Japan>
★Fernao Mendes Pinto (Portuguese adventurer 1509-1583)
●Peregrinacao（pt） <Internet Archive>
<1549>
★Francisco de Xavier (Basque missionary 1506-1552）
●Epistolae S. Francisci Xaverii (la) <Internet Archive>
<1563>
★Luís Fróis (Portuguese missionary 1532-1597）
●“Tratado em que se contem muito susintae abreviadamente algumas contradições e diferenças de custumes
antre a gente de Europa e esta provincial de Japão” (pt) <Document>
●Die Geschichte Japans (1549-1578)(pt) <hathitrust>
<1579>
★Alessandro Valignano （Italian missionary 1539-1606）
●Sumario de la Casas de Japon (pt) <Worldcat>
●Adiciones del sumario de Japon (pt) <Worldcat>
<1690>
★Engelbert Kaempfer (German doctor 1651-1716)
●De Beschryving Van Japan（nl） <Internet Archive>
The History of Japan (en) <Internet Archive><wikisource>
●Histoire naturelle, civile et ecclésiastique du Japon(fr) <Internet Archive>
●The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam <Internet Archive>
●Amoenitates Exoticae <Internet Archive>
<1775>
★Carl Peter Thunberg (Swedish botanist 1743-1828)
●Flora Japonica (la) <Internet Archive>
●Resa uti Europa, Africa, Asia, förrättad åren 1770-1779（sv） <Worldcat>
Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779, volume 2 (en)
●Voyages de C.P. Thunberg, au Japon (fr) <Internet Archive>
<1811>
★Васи́лий Миха́йлович Головни́н (Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin)(Russian navy officer 1776-1831)
●Narrative of my captivity in Japan during ... 1811, 1812, and 1813 (en) <Internet Archive>
<1823>
★Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (German doctor 1796-1866)
●NIPPON (de)(1832) <Internet Archive><Internet Archive>
●Flora Japonica, Leiden, 1835-1870 (la) <Internet Archive>
<1848>
★Ranald MacDonald(1824-1894)
●Ranald MacDonald,the narrative of his early life on the Columbia under the Hudson's bay company's regime;
of his experiences in the Pacific whale fishery; and of his great adventure to Japan
<Internet Archive><hathitrust>
<1853>
★Matthew Calbraith Perry (American navy officer 1794-1858)
<wikipedia><Project Gutenberg>
●Narrative of Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan(en) <Internet Archive>
★Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine (American painter 1827-1885）
●Reise um die Erde nach Japan (de) <Internet Archive>
●Japan und seine Bewohner (de) <Internet Archive>
<1855>
★Johannes Lijdius Catharinus Pompe van Meerdervoort (Dutchman medical officer 1829-1908)
●Vijf jaren in Japan, 1857-1863: bijdragen tot de kennis van het Japansche keizerrijk en zijne bevolking (nl)
★Lühdorf, Friedrich August (German merchant 1834-1891)
●Acht Monate in Japan nach Abschluß des Vertrages von Kanagawa (de) <Internet Archive>
<1856>
★Townsend Harris (American ambassador 1804-1878)
●The complete journal of Townsend Harris <Internet Archive>
★Henry Conrad Joannes Heusken (American interpreter 1832-1861)
●Japan Journal: 1855-1861 (en) <Internet Archive>
<1858>
★James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin [ˈɛl gɪn](British envoy 1811-1863)
●Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
★Laurence Oliphant (British author, traveller 1829-1888)
●Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, '58, '59
●Le Japon (fr) <Hathitrust>
<1859>
★Rudolf Lindau (Swiss consul 1830-1910)
●Un voyage autour Japon (fr) <Internet Archive>
★Sir John Rutherford Alcock（British diplomat 1809-1897)
●Capital of the Tycoon 1863 <Internet Archive><Internet Archive>
●The Capital of the Tycoon: A Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Japan <Internet Archive><Internet Archive>
●Art and Art Industries in Japan <Internet Archive>
<1860>
★Robert Fortune(Scottish plant hunter 1812-1880)
●Yedo and Peking(en) <Internet Archive>
<1861>
★Charles Ferdinand Camille Ghislain Descantons de Montblanc (Frenchman diplomat 1833-1894)
●Le Japon en1866 (fr) <Project Gutenberg>
●Le Japon (fr) <Project Gutenberg>
●Considérations générales sur l'état actuel du Japon(fr) <Project Gutenberg>
<1862>
★Alfred Rousiin （Frenchman officer 1839-1919）
<wikipedia>
●UNE CAMPAGNE SUR LES CÔTES DU JAPON (fr) <Internet Archive>
★Sir Ernest Mason Satow (British diplomat 1843-1929)
●A Diplomat in Japan <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●A Handbook for Travellers in Central and Northern Japan <hathitrust>
●The Revival of Pure Shinto <Worldcat>
●The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow <Worldcat>
●Japan 1853-1864, Or, Genji Yume Monogatari <Internet Archive>
<1863>
★Felice Beato (British photographer 1832-1909)
●Views of Japan （Photographic Views of Japan with Historical and Descriptive Notes,
Compiled from Authentic Sources, and Personal Observation During a Residence of Several Years）
<Worldcat>
★Aimé Humbert-Droz (Swiss diplomat 1819-1900)
●Japan and the Japanese illustrated (en) <Internet Archive>
●Japan(de) <Project Gutenberg>
★John Reddie Black (1826-1880 Scottish publisher, journalist, writer)
●Young Japan:Yokohama and Yedo <Internet Archive><hathitrust>
<1865>
●La Chine et Japon au temps present（fr） <Internet Archive>
<1866>
★Vittorio F. Arminjon (Italian diplomat 1830-1897)
●Il Giappone e il viaggio della corvetta Magenta nel 1866(it) <Internet Archive><日文研>
★Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (British diplomat 1837-1916)
●Tales of Old Japan (1871) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Geschichten aus alt-japan (de) (1906) <Internet Archive>
●Memoirs <Internet Archive>
●Further Memories (1917) <Internet Archive>
<1870>
★William Eliot Griffis (American minister 1843-1928)
●The Mikado's Empire <Internet Archive>
●Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Japanese Fairy World <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
<1871>
★John Harington Gubbins(English Secretary 1852-1929)
●The Making of Modern Japan <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The progress of Japan, 1853-1871 <Internet Archive>
★Alexander Graf von Hubner (Austrian ambassador 1811-1892)
●Promenade autour du monde 1871. Japon (fr) <hathitrust>
<1872>
★Max von Brandt (German minister 1835-1920)
●Dreiunddreissig Jahre in Ost-Asien. Erinnerungen eines deutschen Diplomaten(de) <Internet Archive>
●Ostasiatische Fragen. China. Japan. Korea. Altes und Neues (de) <Internet Archive>
<1873>
★Basil Hall Chamberlain (British linguist 1850-1935)
●Things Japanese <Internet Archive><wikisource>
●A Romanized Japanese Reader; Consisting of Japanese Anecdotes, Maxims, etc., <hathitrust>
●A Handbook for Travellers in Japan <Internet Archive>
●Aino Folk-Tales <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The Fisher-Boy Urashima <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Yamata no orochi <Internet Archive>
●The Invention of a New Religion <Project Gutenberg>
<1875>
★Nicholas McLeod （別名：Norman McLeod) (Scotsman merchant 1868-1889)
●Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan <Worldcat>
★Clara A. N. Whitney (American 1860-1936)
●Clara's diary: an American girl in Meiji Japan <Internet Archive>
<1876>
★Félix Régamey(Frenchman painter 1844-1907)
●Le Japon en images(fr) <Worldcat>
●Le Japon en images : Dessins d'après nature et documents originaux(fr) <Worldcat>
●Le Japon pratique (fr) <hathitrust>
●Le dessin et son enseignement dans les écoles de Tokio (fr) <hathitrust>
●Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (en) <hathitrust>
●Le dessin et son enseignement dans les écoles de Tokio (fr) <hathitrust>
★Émile Étienne Guimet (Frenchman businessman 1836-1918)
●Promenades Japonaises: Le Japon antique et moderne (fr) <Internet Archive>
●Promenades Japonaises(fr) <Internet Archive>
★Erwin von Bälz (German doctor 1849-1913)
●Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte(de) <Worldcat>
●Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales(en) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
<1877>
●Japan Day by Day <Internet Archive>
●Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
<1878>
★Isabella Lucy Bird (British travel writer 1831-1904)
●Unbeaten Tracks in Japan <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
★Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (American philosopher 1853-1908)
●Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art (1912) <Internet Archive>
●"Noh" or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan <Internet Archive>
<1882>
★Georges Ferdinand Bigot (Frenchman painter 1860-1927)
<wikipedia>
●『O-HA-YO おはよ』1883 <Worldcat>
●『MA-TA また』1884 <Worldcat>
●『Croquis Japonais』1886 <Worldcat>
●『Shocking au Japon』1895 <Worldcat>
●『Yokohama Ballads』1899 <Worldcat>
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★Louis Gonse (Frenchman art histrorian 1846-1921)
●L'art Japonais(fr) 1883 <Internet Archive>
<1885>
★Pierre Loti (Frenchman navy officer 1850~1923)
●Japoneries d'automne (fr) <Internet Archive>
●Madame Chrysanthème(en) <Project Gutenberg><Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●La troisième jeunesse de Madame Prune (fr) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Jinrikisha Days in Japan 1891 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The Famous Gardens of Kioto <Worldcat>
●The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan <Worldcat>
●Westward to the Far East a Guide to the Principal Cities of China and Japan with a Note on Korea
<1888>
★Walter Weston (British mountaineer 1861-1940)
●Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps <Internet Archive>
●The Playground of the Far East <Internet Archive>
●A Wayfarer in Unfamiliar Japan <Internet Archive>
★Alice Mabel Bacon(American educator 1858-1918)
●Japanese Girls and Women (1891) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●A Japanese Interior (1893) <Internet Archive>
●In the Land of the Gods; Some Stories of Japan (1905) <Internet Archive>
<1889>
★Percival Lowell (American astronomer 1855-1916)
●The Soul of the Far East <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Occult Japan: or the Way of the Gods <Internet Archive>
★Sir Edwin Arnold (British journalist 1832-1904)
●The Light of Asia <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Japonica（1892） <Internet Archive>
●Adzuma, or the Japanese Wife (1893) <Internet Archive>
★Wenceslau José de Sousa de Morais (Portuguese navy officer 1854-1929)
●"Dai-Nippon"(pt) (1897) <Internet Archive>
●Cartas do Japão (pt) (1904) <Internet Archive>
●"O culto do chá"(pt) (1905) <Project Gutenberg>
●"Paisagens da China e do Japão"(pt) (1906) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●"O Bon-Odori em Tokushima"(pt) (1916) <Internet Archive>
●"Ó-Yoné e Ko-Haru" (pt) (1923) <Worldcat>
●"Relance d'alma japonesa"(pt) (1926) <Internet Archive>
★Joseph Rudyard Kipling (British novelist 1865-1936)
●From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings <Worldcat>
★Mary Crawford Fraser (British wife of minister 1851-1922)
●A diplomat’s wife in Japan : letters form home to home <Internet Archive>
●The Custom of the Country: Tales of New Japan <Internet Archive>
●A Maid of Japan <Internet Archive>
<1890>
<wikipedia><Internet Archive><Video>
●Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan 1894 <Project Gutenberg><Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Out of the east 1895 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Ma première journée en Orient : suivi de Kizuki, le sanctuaire le plus ancien du Japon (fr) <Internet Archive>
●Kokoro 1896 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
〇Idän ääreltä : Kuvia ja luonnoksia Japanista(finland) <Project Gutenberg>
●A Living God 1896 <Worldcat>
●Gleanings in Buddha-Fields 1897 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Exotics and Retrospectives 1898 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The boy who drew cats 1898 <Internet Archive>
●The Goblin Spider 1899 <Worldcat>
●Shadowings 1900 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●A Japannese Miscellany 1901 <Internet Archive>
●Kotto 1902 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling 1902 <Internet Archive>
●Chin Chin Kobakama 1903 <Internet Archive>
●Kwaidan 1904 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Japan; an Attempt at Interpretation 1904 <Project Gutenberg>
●The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories 1905 <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●In Ghostly Japan <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Japanese ghost stories <Internet Archive>
●Fantomes du Japon (fr) <Internet Archive>
●Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketcches <Project Gutenberg>
★Sir Henry Norman(British journalist 1858-1939)
●The Real Japan (1892) <Internet Archive>
●The Peoples and Politics of the Far East (1895) <Internet Archive>
<1893>
★Michel Revon(Frenchman lawyer 1867-1947)
●Étude sur Hokusaï, Paris, Lecène, Oudin et cie, (fr)(1896) <Worldcat>
●Anthologie de la littérature japonaise des origines au XXe siècle (1910) <hathitrust>
★Eleanora Mary D'Anethan (Belgian wife of minister 1860-1935)
●Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan <Internet Archive>
<1898>
★Richard Gordon Smith(British traveler 1858-1918)
●Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan <Internet Archive><WorldCat>
●Travels in the land of the Gods <Internet Archive><WorldCat>
●The Japan diaries of Richard Gordon Smith <Internet Archive><WorldCat>
<1901>
★Herbert George Ponting (British photographer 1870-1935 )
●In Lotus-land Japan (1910) <Internet Archive>
★Ethel Howard(1865-1931)
●Japanese Memories <Internet Archive><hathitrust>
★UCHIMURA Kanzo (Japanese christian thinker 1861-1930)
●How I Became a Christian (1893) <hathitrust>
●The Diary of a Japanese Convert <wikisource>
●Representative men of Japan (1908) <Internet Archive>
★NITOBE Inazo (Japanese the League of nations vice-minister quaker 1862-1933)
●Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1899) <Project Gutenberg> <Video>
★OKAKURA Tenshin (Japanese art historian 1863-1913)
●The Ideals of the East-with special reference to the art of Japan (1903) <Internet Archive>
●The Awakening of Japan (1904) <Internet Archive>
●The Book of Tea (1906) <Project Gutenberg><Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●The Awakening of the East <Internet Archive>
<1916>
★Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet 1861-1941)
●Japan Jatri (Bengali） <Internet Archive>
●The Spirit of Japan (en) <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
<1921>
★Paul Claudel (Frenchman poet 1868-1955)
●Correspondance diplomatique, Tokyo 1921-1927 <Worldcat>
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●Zen and Japanese Culture (1938) <Internet Archive>
●Essays in Zen Buddhism <Project Gutenberg><Internet Archive>
●Essentials of Zen Buddhism (en) <Internet Archive>
●Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (en) <Project Gutenberg>
★MISHIMA Yukio (Japanese novelist 1925-1970)
●The way of the samurai : Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in modern life <Internet Archive>