Prof. dr. W.J. (Wim) Boot
Position:
- Professor
- Japanese history
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2542 |
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| E-Mail: | w.j.boot@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan |
| Office Address: |
Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 0.11F |
Fields of interest
History and intellectual history of premodern Japan
Literature and poetics
Research
History of Japanese thought in the Edo Period, with a special emphasis on Confucianism
Curriculum Vitae
Relevant training
1966-1976: studies Japanese, Korean, and Chinese History at Leiden University and the University of Kyoto
1977-1980: research assistant
1983: Ph.D.
Professional experience
1980-1985: employed in various capacities at the Dept of Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University
1985: appointed full professor in The Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea
Teaching activities
Guest professor at Sophia University (Tokyo) - oktober 2008-april 2009.
2010
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Boot, W.J. (2010)
"Chūka ni tassuru kotoba nakunba": kinsei Nihon to kaigai bunka. Jōchi Daigaku Kokubungaku Ronshū, 43, pp. 1-15.
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2009
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Boot, W.J. (2009)
Emura Hokkai to Kanshi: 18-seiki nakagoro no Kyōto ni okeru Kanshigaku. In Beijing Ribenxue Yanjiu Zhongxin, (Ed.) Ershiyi shiji Dongbeiya Riben yanjiu lunwenji (pp. 1-10). Peking: Xueyuan Chubanshe.
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Boot, W.J. (2009)
Johann Joseph Hoffmann - der erste Japanologe? Horin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur, 16, pp. 83-104.
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Boot, W.J. (2009)
Tegen het isolationisme. Holland als voorbeeld van Japan. Geschiedenis Magazine, 44 (2), pp. 22-25.
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Boot, W.J. (2009)
The Transfer of Learning: The Import of Chinese and Dutch Books in Tokugawa Japan. In Groenendijk, E., Viallé, C., Blussé, J.L. (Eds.) Canton and Nagasaki compared, 1730-1830. Dutch, Chinese, Japanese Relations. Transactions (pp. 45-56). Leiden: IGEER.
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2008
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Boot, W.J. (2008)
"Chōsen Seibatsu Ki" ni egakareta sensō: sengo no aru Nihonjin jugakusha no shisen kara mita Hideyoshi. In Chŏng, Tuhŭi & Yi, Kyŏngsun (Eds.) Jinshin Sensō. 16-seiki Nit-Chō-Chū no kokusai sensō (pp. 264-319). Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.
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Boot, W.J. (2008)
Preface. In Boot, W.J. & Remmelink, W.G.J. (Eds.) The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (pp. 9-23). Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Insititute.
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Boot, W.J. (2008)
Shizuki Tadao's Sakoku-ron. In Boot, W.J. & Remmelink, W.G.J. (Eds.) The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806) (pp. 88-106). Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Insititute.
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Boot, W.J. & Remmelink, W.G.J. (Eds.) (2008)
The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806). Tokyo: Japan-Netherlands Insititute.
(Book editorial)
2007
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Boot, W.J. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey. Translated and edited by]. In: Monumenta Nipponica, 62, pp. 377-380.
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Boot, W.J. (2007)
Chosŏn Chŏngbŏlgi sok-ŭi imjin waeran. Chŏnhu han Ilbon yuhakcha-ŭi sisŏn-ŭro pon Hideyoshi. In Chŏng, Tuhwi & Yi, Kyŏngsun (Eds.) Imjin Waeran. Tong-Asia samguk chŏngjaeng. (A Transnational History of the 'Imjin Waeran" 1592-1598. The East Asian Dimension) (pp. 233-284). Seoul: Hyumanisŭt'ŭ Ch'ulp'an Kŭrup.
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Boot, W.J. (2007)
Keigaku. Gakujutsu Gepp? / Japanese Scientific Monthly, 60 (3), pp. 4-7.
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Aikawa, Tadaomi & Harada, H. & Yoshida, T. & Torii, Y. & Remmelink, W.G.J. & Boot, W.J. (Eds.) (2007)
Rangakusha no furontia: Shizuki Tadao no sekai. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Bunkensha.
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Boot, W.J. (2007)
Should Confucianism be studied as a Religious Tradition? In Breuker, R.E. (Ed.) Korea in the Middle. Korean Studies and Area Studies (pp. 313-332).
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2006
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Nakano, Mitsutoshi & Fujita, Satoru & Boot, W.J. & Suzuki, Jun (2006)
(Zadankai) Matsudaira Sadanobu no bungakuken. Bungaku, 7 (1), pp. 2-24.
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Boot, W.J. (2006)
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807): Kien Toyo to Meichu no kankei ni tsuite. In Matsumura, Yuji, Nakamura, Yasuo, Takei, Kyozo, Chen, Jie (Eds.) Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Japanese Literature, Tokyo, 17th-18th November 2005 (pp. 1-19). Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature.
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Boot, W.J. (2006)
New Additions to the Sorai Library. [Bespreking van: Ogyu Sorai's Philosophical Masterworks: The Bendo and Benmei]. In: Monumenta Nipponica, 61, pp. 559-566.
(Book review)
2005
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Boot, W.J. (2005)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Frontier Contact between Choseon Korea and Tokugawa Japan]. In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 65, pp. 473-483.
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Boot, W.J. & Tucker, J.A. (2005)
Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period. In: Bary, Wm Theodor, de, Gluck, Carol, Tiedeman, Arthur E. (Eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edn, Vol. 2: 1600 to 2000 (Introduction to Asian Civilizations), pp. 29-82. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Boot, W.J. (2005)
Exercises in Biography. The Case of Takebe Ayatari. [Bespreking van: Takebe Ayatari: A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan]. In: Monumenta Nipponica, 60, pp. 393-407.
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Boot, W.J. (2005)
Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate. In: Bary, Wm Theodor, de, Gluck, Carol, Tiedeman, Arthur E. (Eds.), Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edn, Vol. 2: 1600 to 2000 (Introduction to Asian Civilizations), pp. 1-28. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Boot, W.J. (2005)
Yoroppa ni okeru Nihon Kanbungaku kenkyu no genjo to kadai. Sekai ni okeru Nihon Kanbungaku kenkyu no genjo to kadai (pp. 29-60). Tokyo: Nish? Gakusha Daigaku 21-seiki COE puroguramu.
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2003
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Boot, W.J. (2003)
"Waert gij vogels soo mocht gij daer nae toe vliegen." Hendrik Hamel in Japan, 1666-1667. In Roeper, V. & Walraven, B.C.A. (Eds.) De Wereld van Hendrik Hamel. Nederland en Korea in de zeventiende eeuw (pp. 59-78). AMsterdam: SUN.
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Boot, W.J. (2003)
Maxims of Foreign Policy. In Blussé van Oud-Alblas, J.L. & Fernadez-Armesto, F. (Eds.) Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia (pp. 7-23). Leiden: CNWS.
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Boot, W.J. (2003)
Ogyu Sorai, Studieregels. In Bor, J. & Leeuw, K., van der (Eds.) 25 eeuwen oosterse filosofie. Teksten, toelichtingen (pp. 562-569). Amsterdam: Boom.
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Boot, W.J. (2003)
Review. [Bespreking van: Idealism, Protest and the Tale of Genji. The Confucianism of Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691)]. In: Japonica Humboldtiana, 7, pp. 239-251.
(Book review)
2002
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Das Uebersetzen von konfuzianischen Texten im mittelalterichen Japan. Horin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur, 9, pp. 91-115.
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Het voortleven van Hideyoshi. In Poorter, E.G., De (Ed.) Toyotomi Hideyoshi: geweldenaar en parvenu in het Japan van de 16e eeuw (pp. 75-101). Leiden: Plantage.
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Hikaku rekishi no kanousei to hitsuyousei. Ibunka Kouryuu, 3, pp. 139-150.
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Jodai Bungaku. Jodai Bungaku, 4 (88), pp. 22-37.
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Nakae Toju (1608-1648) and Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691). Two thinkers of the Edo period. [Bespreking van: Nakae Tôju (1608-1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691) : deux penseurs de l¿époque d'Edo]. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 12, pp. 133-136.
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Boot, W.J. (2002)
Tento ou la Voie de Ciel. In Girard, F., Horiuchi, A., Mace, M. (Eds.) Repenser l'ordre, repenser l'heritage. Paysage intellectuel du Japon (XVIIe-XIXe siecle) (pp. 87-123). Geneve: Droz.
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2001
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Boot, W.J. (2001)
Education, Schooling and Religion in Early Modern Japan. In Boot, W.J. & Shirahata, Y. (Eds.) Two Faces of the Early Modern World: The Netherlands and Japan in the 17th and 18th Centuries (pp. 15-34). Kyoto: International Research center for Japanese Studies.
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Boot, W.J. (2001)
Het einde van de wet: de voorspellingen van kroonprins Shotoku. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 114 (1), pp. 56-73.
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Boot, W.J. (2001)
Keizers en Shogun. Een geschiedenis van Japan tot 1868. (Licht op Japan). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press/Salome.
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Boot, W.J. (2001)
Oranda ni okeru Nihongaku no genzai to shorai. In Kurihara, F., Kutsuzawa, N., Sato, T. (Eds.) Edojidai no Nihon to Oranda. Nichi-ran koryu 400-nen kinen shinpojiumu hokoku (pp. 1-13). Tokyo: Yogakushi Gakkai.
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Boot, W.J. & Shirahata, Y. (Eds.) (2001)
Two Faces of the Early Modern World: The Netherlands and Japan in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Kyoto: International Research center for Japanese Studies.
(Book editorial)
2000
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
Japan, China and the West. In: Blusse, J.L., Remmelink, W.G.J., Smits, I.B. (Eds.), Bridging the Divide. 400 years The Netherlands-Japan, pp. 75-87. Hilversum: Teleac NOT.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
Japan, China en het Westen. In: Blusse, J.L., Smits, I.B., Remmelink, W.G.J. (Eds.), Bewogen Betrekkingen. 400 jaar Nederland-Japan, pp. 75-88. Hilversum: Teleac NOT.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
Maxims of Foreign Policy. Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History, 24, pp. 62-79.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
Menschenbild und Lebensstil im Konfuzianismus. Horin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur, 7, pp. 121-140.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
Nihon, chuugoku, Seiyou. In: Blusse, J.L., Remmelink, W.G.J., Smits, I.B. (Eds.), Nichi-ran kouryuu 400 nen no rekishi to tenbou, pp. 99-116. Tokyo: Nichi-Ran Gakkai.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
The Death of a Shogun: Deification in Early Modern Japan. In Teeuwen, J., Breen, J., Teeuwen, M. (Eds.) Shinto in History. Ways of the Kami (pp. 144-166). London: Curzon.
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Boot, W.J. (2000)
recensie. [Bespreking van: The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture]. In: Monumenta Nipponica, 55, pp. 606-609.
(Book review)
1999
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Boot, W.J. (1999)
Approaches to Ogyû Sorai: Translation and transculturalization. [Bespreking van: Translation and transculturalization]. In: Monumenta Nipponica, 54, pp. 247-258.
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Boot, W.J. (1999)
Hayashi Razan to Kaidan Zensho. SNKBZ, 64, pp. 3-6.
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Boot, W.J. (1999)
Japanese Poetics and the Kokka Hachiron. Asiatica Venetiana, 4, pp. 23-43.
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Boot, W.J. (1999)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Korea's challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism]. In: T'oung Pao, 85, pp. 523-527.
(Book review)
1997
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Boot, W.J. (1997)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era]. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 40, pp. 90-105.
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Boot, W.J. (1997)
transl., The Confucian Ideal of Rule by Virtue and the Creation of National Politics. In: Rubinger, E. & Rubinger, R. (Eds.), Motoyama Yukihiko, Proliferating Talents: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meija Era, pp. 195-237. Honolulu: Hawaii Univers. Press.
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Boot, W.J. (1997)
vert., Gedichten uit de Manyôshû. In: Idema, W.L. (Ed.), Vijfhonderd opzichters van vijfhonderd bibliotheken doven de lichten. Gedichten uit China, Taiwan, Korea en Japan, pp. 114-127. Leiden: Plantage.
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Boot, W.J. (1997)
vert., Marxistische idyllen van Ishikawa Takuboku. In: Idema, W.L. (Ed.), Vijfhonderd opzichters van vijfhonderd bibliotheken doven de lichten. Gedichten uit China, Taiwan, Korea en Japan, pp. 184-197. Leiden: Plantage.
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1996
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Boot, W.J. (1996)
Kotodama and the Ways of Reading the Manyôshû. In: Frellesvig, B. & Hermansen, Ch.M. (Eds.), Florilegium japonicum. Studies presented to Olof G. Lidin on the occasion of his 70th birthday, pp. 41-52. Kopenhagen: NN.
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Boot, W.J. (1996)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Master Sorai's Responsals]. In: Journal of Japanese Studies, 22, pp. 430-435.
(Book review)
1995
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Boot, W.J. (1995)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Ando Shoeki, Social and Ecological Philosopher of 18th Century Japan]. In: Journal of Japanese Studies, 21, pp. 219-222.
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Boot, W.J. (1995)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Confucian Values and Popular Zen]. In: Journal of Japanese Studies, 21, pp. 214-219.
(Book review)
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