Britain & Japan : biographical portraits. Volume VII / compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortazzi, Hugh.

Series:

Britain and Japan 7.

Britain & Japan : biographical portraits ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Japan--Biography.

British.

Japanese--Great Britain--Biography.

Japanese.

Diplomats--Great Britain--Biography.

Diplomats.

Diplomats--Japan--Biography.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Japan--Biography.

Great Britain.

Japan--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Biography.

Japan.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (698 p.)

Place of Publication:

Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.

Contents:

pt. 1. Meiji era leaders

pt. 2. British politicians

pt. 3. British officials

pt. 4. Scholars, writers and journalists

pt. 5. Scientists

pt. 6. Missionaries

pt. 7. Art

pt. 8. Recreations

pt. 9. Charitable work.

Notes:

Japan Society paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613470669

9781283470667

1283470667

9789004218031

9004218033

OCLC:

775872742

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9781906876265.i-666 DOI