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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625/-1683 Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way
of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the
Emperor of Japan. London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670. |
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| An exceedingly rare work. The plates to this work represent a high water mark in book illustrations of the seventeenth-century. Aside from the importance of the plates, this book remains one of the most curious of the numerous works of travel in the Orient during the seventeenth-century. Among the subjects discussed are the following: murder in Japan, Japanese wrestlers, Japanese baths, jugglers and necromancers, burning of widows, Japanese tortures, boiling waters of Singok, Japnaese wines, and whaling. | |||||||
