{"id":6741,"date":"2026-07-03T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/?page_id=6741"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:03:21","slug":"6741-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vestnik.rsu-rzn.ru\/en\/6741-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>Voyage in the Sunbeamyacht: the image of Japan in Anna Brassey\u2019s book<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 46-55 \u00a0|\u00a0 <strong>DOI:<\/strong> 10.37724\/RSU.2026.91.2.005 \u00a0|\u00a0 <strong>UDK:<\/strong> 94(520):821.111-992.09\u00ab18\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abolmasov V.V.<\/strong><br \/>\nRyazan State University named for S. Yesenin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malchikova S.P.<\/strong><br \/>\nSmolensk State Medical University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article analyzes the image of Japan in the travelogue of the British writer Anna Brassey A Voyage in the \u201cSunbeam\u201d our home on the ocean for eleven months. (1878). Based on a detailed study of the chapters describing the author\u2019s stay in the Land of the Rising Sun in 1877, we describe the peculiarities of the perception of Japanese reality by a representative of the Victorian elite in the context of British-Japanese relations in the second half of the 19th century. In Lady Brassey\u2019s work one can trace the contradiction characteristic of the European consciousness of the 19th century between the established Orientalist image of the \u201cold\u201d exotic Japan and the new modernizing state. The traveler notes ongoing rapid Westernization, but at the same time consciously seeks and appreciates traces of \u201cauthentic Japan,\u201d corresponding to the stereotypical image that had developed in Europe. The Baroness notices the honesty and friendliness of Japanese people, but at the same time emphasizes their \u201cwild\u201d curiosity and their persisting \u201cbarbaric\u201d customs from her European point of view. The results of the study are meant to expand and update knowledge about British-Japanese cultural contacts in the second half of the 19th century, the mechanisms of formation and transmission of Orientalist images, as well as to show the specificity of the female view of a representative of the Victorian era on the processes of modernization in East Asia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Anna Brassey, Lady Brassey, Japan, Great Britain, travelogue, travel literature<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>none<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. \u0411\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0435\u0439 \u0410. \u0412\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0433 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0430 \u0432 11 \u043c\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0446\u0435\u0432. \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0435\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u043a\u0438. \u2014 \u041c. : \u0438\u0437\u0434. \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0433\u043e\u0432\u0446\u0430 \u041c. \u0412. \u041a\u043b\u044e\u043a\u0438\u043d\u0430, 1899. \u2014 180 \u0441.<br \/>\n2. 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