| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.2 | The History Cooperative

Donald Keene. Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841. (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 289. $24.50.
Donald Keene's first book on Western studies in Tokugawa Japan, The Japanese Discovery of Europe, appeared in 1952. A half century later his first volume on Japanese art history revisits what scholars in that country knew of Western learning in the early nineteenth century and explores the works of a fine painter who is little recognized outside Japan.	1
Keene's lively narrative treats Watanabe Kazan as astonishingly inquisitive about the Western world from which Japan was largely cut off after 1600. Kazan was a son of a poor samurai retainer of Tahara, a minor fief in today's Aichi prefecture. Born and reared in Edo (old Tokyo), he took up painting as a youth to support his family and in his mid-twenties grew interested in Dutch studies, the only path to Western learning at the time. Eventually he was imprisoned for his devotion to foreign learning and his supposed support for a recent revolt in Ōsaka. Sentenced to house arrest the following year, he grew disheartened and killed himself in 1841.	. . .

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