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Longfellow's tattoos : tourism, collecting, and Japan / Christine M.E. Guth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guth, Christine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Longfellow, Charles Appleton.
- Travel.
- Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Longfellow, Charles Appleton--Travel--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, returned to Boston after two years in Japan laden with photographs, curios, art objects, and elaborate tattoos he had "collected" on his body; his experiences focus this look at tourism, Japan, and America in the 19th century.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Globe-Trotting in Japan 3
- Chapter 2 Picturing Japan 51
- Chapter 3 Paradise of Curios 89
- Chapter 4 Embodying Japan 121
- Chapter 5 Domesticating Japan 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295984023
- 0295984015
- 0295984562
- OCLC:
- 53477203
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