TY - BOOK AU - Sano,Mayuko AU - Shibunkaku Publishing TI - Japanese Ceremonial for Western Diplomats Attending Shogunal Castle Audiences, 1857-1867 T2 - Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific SN - 9789048557646 U1 - 327.52 23//eng/20241004eng PY - 2024///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Diplomatic etiquette KW - Japan KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Diplomatics KW - AUP Wetenschappelijk KW - Amsterdam University Press KW - Asia Pacific KW - Asian Studies KW - Cultural Studies KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Politics and Government KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh KW - (Japan’s) Bakumatsu foreign relations KW - Tokugawa shogunate, castle audiences, Diplomats, Diplomacy of equals N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Translators’ Notes --; Foreword to the English Edition --; Introduction --; I The Background of Bakumatsu Diplomatic Ceremonial --; 1 The Ceremonial and Foreign Relations of the Tokugawa Shogunate --; 2 Diplomatic Ceremonial in Western Nations --; II The Unfolding of Bakumatsu Diplomatic Ceremonial --; 3 United States Consul General Harris’s Audience with the Shogun (1857) --; 4 The Evolution of Bakumatsu Ceremonial through Trial and Error --; 5 The Establishment of Ceremonial Forms --; 6 Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s Audiences for Representatives of Four Western Nations (1867) --; Conclusion : How Bakumatsu Diplomatic Ceremonial Brought About “Diplomacy between Equals” --; Sources --; Afterword --; Timeline --; List of Figures --; Index; restricted access N2 - The formal diplomatic relations between Japan and Western nations dawned when the first American consul-general Townsend Harris was received by the thirteenth Tokugawa shogun Iesada at Edo castle in 1857. —This work unveils the seventeen castle audiences for Western envoys carried out by the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) during its last decade of reign. Through that process, the shogunate completed a ceremonial form based on its own tradition, as well as consistent with the Western practice. The endeavours of Tokugawa retainers on the frontline of external affairs at the time¬.prior to the Meiji Restoration (1868).was the true first step of Japan’s entry into the international community. The formation of diplomatic ceremonial, progressed as a different layer from more political negotiations, provides an alternative history of bakumatsu (late years of the shogunate) foreign relations that has been overlooked in previous studies UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557646?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048557646 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048557646/original ER -