Specialist – Scholarly Publications
The versatile and complex works of poet and state adviser Constantijn Huygens show a few instances of perceptions of Japan. Intriguing is his epigram ‘Iaponsche Trijn’ [Japanese Kitty] that at a closer look indicates how well-informed he actually was about this far away country on the other side of the globe. The poem is also one of the first sources
At the origin of a voluminous discourse on picturesque taste in eighteenth century England stands an essay by Sir William Temple (1628–99) that contains the word sharawadgi, which he claims is Chinese. As a result of his introducing this concept, Temple is considered the originator of the English landscape garden movement. In extended academic debates on urban planning or contemporary art, the term has played an ever-increasing role since the mid twentieth century. Severa
Today, the results of the ‘Jinja kō bengi’ research project by W.J. Boot and M.M.E. Buijnsters have been made public on our website under the section “Specialist; Scholarly Pu