Word: nipponologist
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...storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold Henderson (former Nipponologist at Columbia University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese...
...question is partially answered by this slim, elegant volume that has been assembled by Nipponologist Oliver Statler, author of Japanese Inn (but no kin to the U.S. innkeeping clan). Half of the book, and its heart, consists of 40 color plates taken from two Japanese scrolls of the time. Such scrolls, which unrolled horizontally up to 40 ft., served as the picture books and newsreels of feudal Japan. To document Perry's arrival, and satisfy their feudal masters' incorrigible curiosity, Japanese artists swarmed aboard Perry's six black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush...
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