Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571276882
Published:
17.03.2011
No of pages:
282
The Deer Cry Pavilion
Pat Barr
It was the Emperor Meiji's restoration to the throne in 1868 that ushered in the long period of 'Enlightened Government' which saw thousands of Westerners crossing Japan's threshold to witness the country's modernisation.
For thirty years professionals, diplomats, traders, missionaries and globe-trotters introduced new possibilities to a nation that had long been isolated. Each visitor and resident experienced a different Japan during these exciting and progressive years: from the machinations of the merchants in the Yokohama
hongs
and the bear-worshipping rituals of the Ainu to the secret and cruel world of the courtesans of the Nightless City, to missionaries disappearing into the hinterland with bibles and bicycles and upper-class Japanese women dancing Viennese waltzes under the chandeliers of the Deer Cry Pavilion.
In
The Coming of the Barbarians
,
also pubilshed by Faber Finds, Pat Barr wrote of the early years of Japan's contact with the West, painting the portrait of a society in transition: in
The Deer Cry Pavilion
the pace is accelerated as she describes a country hurtling through centuries of change in just a few decades.
Tags
Categorised as:
Non-fiction
Sub-categories:
History
Places:
Japan
Genres & Themes:
Faber Finds;
East vs West;
Empires;
Metamorphosis;
Globalisation;
Trade
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