![]() ![]() Stories and Studies of Strange Things' (1904) out of the tradition of Irish ghost stories and 'uncanny' Edo-Japanese tales in English, and a novella by Sōseki Natsume about 'The Tower of London' (1905). ![]() The study focuses on the Irish Greek born Lafcadio Hearn, who later took on the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo and wrote down old Japanese ghost stories 'Kwaidan. This comparative analysis of representative travel writings between Japan and Europe at the end of the nineteenth century aims to illuminate the creation of ‘Japan’ as a national fantasy (Benedict Anderson) modeled after the Western European ones. ![]() This figures as a precedent of a successful sovereign modernization of an 'Asian' 'non-Western' country. The Meiji modernisation of Japan in late-nineteenth century after 250 years of self-isolation out of the outer threat from Western imperialism was realised through the sovereign introduction of selected reforms from Western Europe. ![]()
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