Seiyō Jijō

Seiyō Jijō (Japanese: 西洋事情, lit. 'Things Western'), also known as Conditions of the West, is a ten-volume book by Fukuzawa Yukichi. It was the textbook for Japan's understanding of the West prior to the Meiji Restoration. Fukuzawa wrote it after his role as part of the first diplomatic mission to the United States. Fukuzawa was known as a strong advocate for Japan's embrace of international relations after the end of the closed-border sakoku period. The volumes were published in installments from 1866 to 1879. The book gave Fukuzawa his status as the foremost expert on Western civilization in Japan.

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