Can some anon explain the japanese Rangaku tradition to me?

>>3172922
What's the context of this painting? A Chinese, Japanese and a british-looking westerner?

>>3172922
Extreme Dutchaboo-ism taken to memetic levels, such that it prevents your coutnry from being a mysticist (Donghak) shithole like Korea.

>>3172922
Fuck that explain this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yobai

>>3174120
They're probably Dutch.

>>3174150
Can you develope that statement? I don't know shit about pre-modern Korea.

>>3175183
Japanese tinder

>>3172922
It's not very complicated. Some Japanese people noticed that the west was more advanced in a number of ways so they wanted to learn things from Dutch books which they got by trading with them.
This was during a time of near total national isolation. The Dutch and only the Dutch were allowed to trade and they were relegated to a single port. This meant you pretty much had to learn from books.
You have to remember that for almost Japan's entire history they have been strongly influenced by outside forces. They took the basics of their writing system, their fashion, their architecture, their philosophy and religion, their art etc from over seas. Right up until the Meiji Chinese was seen as a more refined language and many poets still wrote in that language. To want to learn things from other places isn't weird for the Japanese.

>>3175183
sounds like the Heian court life expanded to villages.