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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818172303321

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

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.