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“... Japanese, read Dutch, draw, sing, put on [their] coats, then take them off again’. It was, as Timon Screech writes, ‘an anthropological exercise’. The encounter belongs to a long history of mutual ethnography between Easterners and Westerners.Although we are lacking European accounts, the people of Edo themselves left a rich archive. The city had ...”

“... middle of the book is the more disheartening for being surrounded by such an innovative frame. As Timon Screech, a scholar of the Tokugawa era, has put it, the ‘Euro-Japanese interaction’ that happened via Dejima ‘represents a genuinely unique case study in almost egalitarian cultural collision’. At the beginning and end of The Thousand Autumns ...”