Grenzeloos opgezet: Philipp Franz von Siebold en zijn Nippon (Leiden 1832–1852)

Kuniko Forrer

doi:10.5117/JNB2025.003.FORR

ISSN: 1381-0065
E-ISSN: 2772-7726

oa Grenzeloos opgezet

Philipp Franz von Siebold en zijn Nippon (Leiden 1832–1852)
Author: Kuniko Forrer
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Source: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, Volume 32, Issue 2025, Jul 2025, p. 24 - 49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/JNB2025.003.FORR
Language: Dutch
- Published online: 01 Jul 2025

Abstract

Nippon (1832–1852) is a seven-volume, state-of-the-art book on Japan and the Far East, written by Philipp Franz von Siebold. He stayed in Japan from 1823 onwards as a doctor in service of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (knil). There, he collected everything that could be collected. But his curiosity was too big: because of his attempt to smuggle official state maps, he was banished from Japan in 1830. He returned to the Netherlands to publish his discoveries. To that aim, he founded his own lithographic publishing house in Leiden with financial support of the Dutch government. His team was very international. The importance of Nippon only increased with the growing international pressure on Japan to open up its borders to other foreigners. With his book Nippon, Siebold established his reputation, but also the reputation of the Netherlands in the field of international knowledge of the Far East in times of big geopolitical changes.

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