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

• Pubblicazione: Folkestone, : Global Oriental, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (698 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.41052
• Soggetto topico: British - Japan; Japanese - Great Britain; Diplomats - Great Britain; Diplomats - Japan
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Foreign relations Japan Biography; Japan Foreign relations Great Britain Biography; Great Britain Relations Japan Biography; Japan Relations Great Britain Biography
• Altri autori: CortazziHugh
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Britain & Japan
• ISBN: 1-283-47066-7; 9786613470669; 90-04-21803-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778940603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Britain and Japan ; 7.