Brinkley’s 10-volume Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, “with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura” (Tokyo and Boston: Millet: 1897-98)

Chamberlain, Basil Hall. 1891. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, 2nd ed. London and Yokohama: Keagan Paul, Trench, Trubner; Kelly & Walsh Ltd.

Chamberlain, Basil Hall. 1927. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, 5th ed. London and Kobe: Keagan Paul, Trench, Trubner; J.L. Thompson.

Gartlan, Luke. 2001. A Chronology of Baron Raimund von Stillfired-Ratenicz (1839-1911). In Japanese Exchanges in Art 1850s-1930s. Edited by John Clark. Sydney: Power Publications.

Griffis, William Elliot. 1876. The Mikado’s Empire, New York: Harper and Brothers.

Guth, Christine. 2004. Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.

Hockley, Allen. 2006. Expectation and Authenticity in Meiji Tourist Photography. In Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. Edited by Ellen P. Conant. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Hockley, Allen. 2004. Packaged Tours: Photo Albums and Their Implications for the Study of Early Japanese Photography. In Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama Mikiko. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

Hockley, Allen. 2004. First Encounters-Emerging Stereotypes: Westerners and Geisha in the Late Nineteenth Century. In Geisha, Beyond the Painted Smile. New York: George Braziller.

Izakura, Naomi and Boyd Torin. 2000. Portraits in Sepia, Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama.

Keeling, W. E. L. 1880. Tourists’ Guide to Yokohama, Tokio, Hakone, Fujiyama, Kamakura, Yokoska, Kanozan, Narita, Nikko, Kioto, Osaka, etc., etc., Yokohama: Sargent, Farsari & Co.

Kroeger, Brooke 1994. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, New York: Times Books Random House.

Sladen, Douglas. 1891. Club Hotel Guide to Japan, Yokohama: The Club Hotel.


Resources

Scholars, teachers, and students interested in the visual history of modern Japan, including photography, can find a wealth of online materials from private dealers as well as public sources. See, for example:

Information on Meiji-era Japan appears in the highly detailed site of antiquarian book and print dealer George C. Baxley. Several links provide original material relevant to “Globetrotters’ Japan” in particular showing various editions of Brinkley’s Japan:

http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/brink_15/brinkley_deluxe.shtml
http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/brink_15/1898060107.shtml
http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/ry_litho_narrative.shtml#brinkley

The following juxtaposition originated on the Baxley website:

New York Times Obituary
CAPT. FRANK BRINKLEY DEAD.; Japanese Correspondent of London Times, Author and Instructor.

“Globetrotters’ Japan: People” was developed by Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and presented on MIT OpenCourseWare.

MIT Visualizing Cultures:

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