From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were…
Watermark: Ö JETÖ[?]; label verso in ballpoint pen, inscribed for donor by Noel Ginn: Portrait Lilian Kennedy by M.T. Woollaston for Hocken Library; Hocken