View of England - Igiriskan

Japanese: イギリス観 - いぎりすかん
View of England - Igiriskan

...However, as the power of England expanded throughout the country's history, the term "Great Britain" came to be used indiscriminately, vaguely, and ambiguously to refer to a wide area including "England and Wales," "Great Britain" including Scotland, and Ireland, and then, as the country acquired overseas colonies, even to the "British Empire" (or the British Commonwealth). And since the country opened its borders at the end of the Edo period, the Japanese view of Britain has been dominated by a perspective that seeks to discover the reasons for the growth of this small island nation, just like Japan, and the image of Britain as a colonial empire, "the world's factory," parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy, and a country of gentlemen has taken root among the Japanese. However, there are two misunderstandings at the base of this view of Britain.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "British view" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,この国の歴史におけるイングランド勢力の膨張にともなって,イギリスという呼称は地域のうえで,〈イングランドとウェールズ〉,スコットランドを含めた〈グレート・ブリテン〉,さらにはこれにアイルランドを含め,また次にこの国の海外植民地獲得に応じて,〈大英帝国〉(あるいはイギリス連邦)までを含む広範な地域をさして,無差別な,漠然かつあいまいな使われ方をしている。そして幕末開国以来の日本人のイギリス観を支配したのは,日本と同じこの小さな島国の強大化の理由を探ろうとする視角であり,植民地帝国,〈世界の工場〉,立憲君主制の下での議会政治,ジェントルマンの国といったイギリスのイメージが日本人に定着していった。 しかしながら,かかるイギリス観の基底には,二つの誤解が存する。…

※「イギリス観」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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