Associate Professor

Frederik CRYNS

Current Research
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Education:

2006 - present: Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2003 - 2006: Research Associate, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2000 - 2003: Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1997 - 1999: Lecturer, Osaka University
1995 - 2006: Lecturer, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
1993 - 1995: Belgium Flanders Exchange Center

Interaction between the Western World and Japan, history of medicine

Western books on Japan in Edo Period
Pompe's Vijf jaren in Japan

Western books on Japan, Western science in Japan

2011: Chūkyū Orandago (Intermediate Dutch Grammar), Hakusuisha
2010: 17 seiki no orandajin ga mita nihon (Japan, seen through the eyes of the Dutch in the 17th century), Rinsen Shoten
2006: Edo jidai ni okeru kikaironteki shintaikan no juyō (The Influence of the Mechanical Concept of the Body in Edo-period Japan), Rinsen Shoten; Catalogue of European Books in the Kyo-U Library, Takeda Shinkō Zaidan
2004: Orandago no kiso (Dutch Grammar), Hakusuisha.

2011: “Un Japonais naturalisé? Identité et rôle historique de William Adams.” Devenir l'autre. Expérience et récit du changement de culture entre le Japon et l'Occident. Arles, Ėditions Philippe Picquier, pp.19-29; “Western medicine adopted by the Rangaku doctors: therapeutics and their theoretical foundations”, 18 seiki nihon no bunka jōkyō to kokusaikankyō, pp.103-119.
2009: “Pompe no nihonshi-kan" (Pompe's perspective on the history of Japan), Nihon Kenkyu 40, pp.319-356.; “Oranda shōkan-gata nihonkan to sakoku” (How sakoku influenced the Dutch image of Japan), Tabi to Nihon Hakken, pp.197-207.
2007: “17 seiki Batavia kara no nihon jōhō : Schouten, Oost-Indische Voyagie ni okeru nihon kankei kijutsu” (The transmission of information on Japan through Batavia in the 17th Century, the description of Japan in Schouten's Oost-Indische Voyagie) , Nihon Kenkyū 35, pp.275-310.