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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457176603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, : Global Oriental, 2010

ISBN

1-283-47066-7

9786613470669

90-04-21803-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (698 p.)

Collana

Britain & Japan : biographical portraits ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

CortazziHugh

Disciplina

327.41052

Soggetti

British - Japan

Japanese - Great Britain

Diplomats - Great Britain

Diplomats - Japan

Electronic books.

Great Britain Foreign relations Japan Biography

Japan Foreign relations Great Britain Biography

Great Britain Relations Japan Biography

Japan Relations Great Britain Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Japan Society paperback edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.