@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000396, author = {FIALA, Karel}, journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies}, month = {Jan}, note = {This study concentrates on the first contacts in various fields, namely on the problem of the first Czech materials on Japan, of the first missionaries, travelers, scholars, writers and entrepreneurs, who introduced unknown aspects of Japanese culture to the territory of present Czechoslovakia. The basic idea of this research is to conceive the period from the 16th century to the end of World War I as "prehistorical" from the point of the development of Japanese studies. Future analysis of the specific development of Japanese studies ought to consider the above-mentioned background and focus on the problem of how the present state was affected by the tradition.}, pages = {45--71}, title = {First Contents of Czechs and Slovaks with Japanese Culture (Up to World War I) : The Major Publications and Personalities}, volume = {3}, year = {1992} }