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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students and teachers studying modern Japanese history and Western views of Japan
- Readers interested in the history of East-West cultural exchange
- History enthusiasts with English reading ability
- Social science researchers in need of nineteenth-century Western-perspective historical sources
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking information on contemporary Japanese society and current conditions
- General readers who have difficulty reading English and need a Chinese translation
- Analysts looking for the latest data on Japan
Reading tips
- First learn about the author's life and the date of composition to assess his standpoint and the limits of his sources.
- While reading, note the author's specific descriptions of Japanese customs and institutions and compare them with later scholarship.
- Read alongside general works on modern Japanese history to gain complementary perspectives.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
David Murray (1830–1905) was a Scottish lawyer and scholar. Public information about his life and academic activities is limited. He left a work entitled Japan, which is the one item held in our collection. Judging from the available information, his writing drew on the rigorous habits of a legal practitioner and the research interests of a scholar; the subject concerns Japan, though the specific circumstances of composition, editions, and details of style remain to be further verified. He also wrote a work on the history and institutions of museums, indicating an interest in the evolution and operation of public cultural institutions. Overall, Murray's output was small and his influence rather specialized, chiefly aimed at readers interested in Japan and in the institutional history of museums; his writings may still serve as reference points for research in these fields.
