Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Note to the Reader xv
6. Prologue: Japan in Early Books for Children: From Comenius to Commodore Perry 1
7. Part I From Early Children’s Books to the End of the Nineteenth Century
8. 1 They Went to Japan: The Post-Perry Travelers and Their Stories for the Young 19
9. 2 Fact and Fiction: Travelogues and Adventure Tales about Japan to the Turn of the Twentieth Century 49
10. 3 Takejiro Hasegawa: The Foreigners’ Publisher 77
11. 4 Japan in St. Nicholas Magazine 101
12. 5 The Children’s Book Writers and Their Information Sources: From Marco Polo to Madame Chrysanthème 125
13. Part II The Twentieth Century
14. 6 Globetrotting in Children’s Books: From 1900 to World War II 153
15. 7 Louise Seaman Bechtel: America’s First Children’s Book Editor and Her Books about Japan 191
16. 8 The Post–World War II Years 219
17. 9 Three Japanese American Journeys 247
18. 10 Into the Twenty-First Century 279
19. Appendix: The Gatekeepers: Leading American Children’s Librarians and Their Influence on Children’s Books about Japan 309
20. Acknowledgments 326
21. Notes 329
22. Selected Bibliography and Further Reading 346
23. Illustration and Text Excerpt Credits 352
24. Index 357
25. About the Author 365