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Britain and Japan. Biographical portraits. Volume viii

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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.

Title Britain and Japan. Biographical portraits. Volume viii / compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi
contributors Sonia Ashmore [and forty one others].
Publisher Leiden, [Netherlands]
Boston, [Massachusetts] : Global Oriental
Creation Date 2013
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Britain and Japan
Extent 1 online resource (804 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2013
National Library system number 997010711899905171
MARC RECORDS
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