Britain and Japan. Biographical portraits. Volume viii / compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi ; contributors Sonia Ashmore [and forty one others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortazzi, Hugh, compiler, editor.

Ashmore, Sonia, contributor.

Series:

Britain and Japan 8.

Britain and Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomats--Great Britain--Biography.

Diplomats.

Japanese--Great Britain--Biography.

Japanese.

Great Britain--Relations--Japan--Biography.

Great Britain.

Japan--Relations--Great Britain--Biography.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (804 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Global Oriental, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain andamp; Japan: Biographical Portraits published on behalf of The Japan Society, London. It contains essays from forty contributors relating to fifty-two portraits of personalities who have been influential in political, official and cultural relations between the two countries from the time of the Meiji Restoration to the present day. The volume is thematically structured in eight sections: Politicians and Officials; Lawyers; Artists, Art Collectors and Art Dealers; Potters and Garden Designers; Writers; Music, Sport, Film and Media; Scholars; Other Notable Individuals. In addition, the volume contains two appendices relating to The Times and Japan in the nineteenth century and a bibliography relating to publications from the Satow papers, together with two select bibliographies in English and Japanese which shed light on Britons who lived in Japan and Japanese who lived in Britain.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Hugh Cortazzi

Iwakura Tomomi (1825–1883) / Andrew Cobbing

Utsunomiya Tarō (1861–1922) / Mizuo Oyama and Sebastian Dobson

Makino Shinken (Nobuaki) (1871–1949) / Ian Nish

Miyazawa Kiichi (1919–2007) / Arthur Stockwin

Lord Salisbury (1830–1903) / T.G. Otte

Edward Grey (1862–1935) / Ian Nish

Lt.Col. E.F. Calthrop (1876–1915) / Sebastian Dobson

Maj.Gen F.S.G. Piggott (1883–1966) / Antony Best

A.B. Mitford (1837–1916) / Robert Morton

Korea,Taiwan and Manchuria: Britain’s Consular Service in the Japanese Empire, 1883–1941 / J.E. Hoare

British Lawyers in Japan 1859–1899 / Christopher Roberts

Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson (1840–1926) / Christopher Roberts

William Donald Patrick at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946–48 / Ann Trotter

Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938) / Sonia Ashmore

Walter Tyndale (1855–1943) / Toni Huberman

George Henry (1854–1934) and E.A. Hornel (1864–1933) / Ayako Ono

Hara Bushō (1866–1912) / Hugh Cortazzi

Kurihara Chūji (1886–1936) / Libby Horner

Ernest Hart (1835–1898) / Noboru Koyama

William B. Sutherland (died 1945) / Monika Bincsik

Yamanaka Sadajirō (1866–1936) / Sonoko Monden

Matsukata Kōjirō (1865–1950) / Libby Horner

Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886–1963) / Hugh Cortazzi

Matsubayashi Tsurunosuke (1894–1932) / Shinya Maezaki

Josiah Conder (1852–1920) / Toshio Watanabe

Handa Taki (1871–1956) / Jill Raggett , Yuka Kajihara-Nolan and Jason Nolan

Elizabeth Anna Gordon (1851–1925) / Noboru Koyama

Douglas Sladen (1856–1947) / Hugh Cortazzi

James Kirkup (1918–2009) / David Burleigh

Virginia Woolf (1892–1941) / Noriko Kubota

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) / George Wallace

Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) / Norimasa Morita

Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) / Jason James

British contribution to Tennis in Japan / Keiko Itoh

F.W. Strange and Rowing as a Sport in Japan / Jun Kochi

David Lean (1908–1991) / Norimasa Morita

G.E. Morrison (1862–1920) / Antony Best

Ernest Thomas Bethell (1872–1909) / Chin-Sok Chong

The Death of James Melville Cox (1885–1940) in Tokyo on 29 July 1940: Arrests of British Citizens in Japan in 1940 and 1941 / Hugh Cortazzi

George Gorman (1888–1956) / Deborah Mcfarlane

Charles Dunn (1915–1995) / Hugh Cortazzi

P.G. O’Neill (1924–2012) / Phillida Purvis

Charles Alfred Fisher (1916–1982) / Gordon Daniels

Peter Lowe (1914–2012) / Ian Nish

Albert Sydney Hornby (1898–1978) / Paul Snowden

Ōtsuka Hisao (1907–1996) / Eiri Saitō

Saitō Takeshi (1887–1982) / Hisaaki Yamanouchi

Mary Helena Cornwall Legh (1857–1941) / Shigeru Nakamura

Eikichi Itoh (1911–2012) and Rosa Hideko Itoh (1921–2005) / Keiko Itoh

Ron Duckenfield (1917–2010) / Kōji Hoashi

Field Marshal Sir Francis W. Festing (1912–1976) / Yahya Shaigiya-Abdelsamad

John Mathews James (1835–1908) / Sebastian Dobson

APPENDIX I. The Times and Japan in the Nineteenth Century / Hugh Cortazzi

APPENDIX I-A. The Times Correspondents in Japan / Hugh Cortazzi

APPENDIX I-B. Selected Letters to The Times Relating to Japanese Affairs / Hugh Cortazzi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-873410-89-1

OCLC:

871223277

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004246461 DOI