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• catalog abstract "When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an international power. This great wave of historical and cultural reciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified during the late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-life personalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures prompted pilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The great wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knit group of nineteenth-century travelers--connoisseurs, collectors, and scientists--who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan. These travelers include Herman Melville, Henry Adams, John La Farge, Lafcadio Hearn, Mabel Loomis Todd, Edward Sylvester Morse, Percival Lowell, and President Theodore Roosevelt. As well, we learn of famous Easterners come West, including Kakuzo Okakura and Shuzo Kuki.".
• catalog contributor b12800592.
• catalog coverage "Japan Civilization 1600-1868.".
• catalog coverage "Japan Civilization 1868-1912.".
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1783-1865.".
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization Japanese influences.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323) and index.".
• catalog description "The floating world (Herman Melville and John Manjiro) -- A collector of seashells (Edward Sylvester Morse) -- The Boston tea party (Kakuzo Okakura and Isabella Gardner) -- A season of nirvana ;Falling water (Henry Adams and John La Farge) -- Messages from Mars (Percival Lowell and Mabel Loomis Todd) -- The mountain of skulls (Lafcadio Hearn and Mary Fenollosa) -- The Judo Room (Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow) -- Epilogue: circa 1913: the escape from time.".
• catalog description "When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an international power. This great wave of historical and cultural reciprocity between the two young nations, which intensified during the late 1800s, brought with it some larger-than-life personalities, as the lure of unknown foreign cultures prompted pilgrimages back and forth across the Pacific. In The great wave, Benfey tells the story of the tightly knit group of nineteenth-century travelers--connoisseurs, collectors, and scientists--who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan. These travelers include Herman Melville, Henry Adams, John La Farge, Lafcadio Hearn, Mabel Loomis Todd, Edward Sylvester Morse, Percival Lowell, and President Theodore Roosevelt. As well, we learn of famous Easterners come West, including Kakuzo Okakura and Shuzo Kuki.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 332 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Great wave.".
• catalog identifier "0375503277 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Great wave.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
• catalog relation "Great wave.".
• catalog spatial "Japan Civilization 1600-1868.".
• catalog spatial "Japan Civilization 1868-1912.".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1783-1865.".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization Japanese influences.".
• catalog subject "303.48/27305/09034 21".
• catalog subject "DS822.3 .B46 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "The floating world (Herman Melville and John Manjiro) -- A collector of seashells (Edward Sylvester Morse) -- The Boston tea party (Kakuzo Okakura and Isabella Gardner) -- A season of nirvana ;Falling water (Henry Adams and John La Farge) -- Messages from Mars (Percival Lowell and Mabel Loomis Todd) -- The mountain of skulls (Lafcadio Hearn and Mary Fenollosa) -- The Judo Room (Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow) -- Epilogue: circa 1913: the escape from time.".
• catalog title "The great wave : Gilded Age misfits, Japanese eccentrics, and the opening of old Japan / Christopher Benfey.".
• catalog type "text".