HERE & THERE – The Iconography of Ships and the Problem of “Isolation” in the Later Edo Period

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Columbia University
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Timon Screech, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Sainsbury Institute and Visiting Professor, New York University, discusses shipbuilding dilemmas faced by the Tokugawa shogunate at a time when Japan had foresworn ocean-going vessels. Sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.