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Britain and Japan : Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIII.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Britain and Japan SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (804 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004246461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIIIDDC classification:
  • 303.48241052
LOC classification:
  • DA47.9.J3 .B758 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Biographical Portraits -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Volumes -- PART I: POLITICIANS AND OFFICIALS -- 1. Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883) -- 2. Utsunomiya Tarō (1861-1922) -- 3. Makino Shinken (Nobuaki) (1871-1949) -- 4. Miyazawa Kiichi (1919-2007) -- 5. Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) -- 6. Edward Grey (1862-1935) -- 7. Lt.Col. E.F. Calthrop (1876-1915) -- 8. Maj.Gen F.S.G. Piggott (1883-1966) -- 9. A.B. Mitford (1837-1916) -- 10. Korea,Taiwan and Manchuria: Britain's Consular Service in the Japanese Empire, 1883-1941 -- PART II: LAWYERS -- 11. British Lawyers in Japan 1859-1899 -- 12. Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson (1840-1926) -- 13. William Donald Patrick at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-48 -- PART III: ARTISTS, ART COLLECTORS AND ART DEALERS -- 14. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) -- 15. Walter Tyndale (1855-1943) -- 16. George Henry (1854-1934) and E.A. Hornel (1864-1933) -- 17. Hara Bushō (1866-1912) -- 18. Kurihara Chūji (1886-1936) -- 19. Ernest Hart (1835-1898) -- 20. William B. Sutherland (died 1945) -- 21. Yamanaka Sadajirō (1866-1936) -- 22. Matsukata Kōjirō (1865-1950) -- PART IV: POTTERS AND GARDEN DESIGNERS -- 23. Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963) -- 24. Matsubayashi Tsurunosuke (1894-1932) -- 25. Josiah Conder (1852-1920) -- 26. Handa Taki (1871-1956) -- PART V: WRITERS -- 27. Elizabeth Anna Gordon (1851-1925) -- 28. Douglas Sladen (1856-1947) -- 29. James Kirkup (1918-2009) -- 30. Virginia Woolf (1892-1941) -- 31. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) -- 32. Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) -- PART VI: MUSIC, SPORT, FILM AND MEDIA -- 33. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) -- 34. British contribution to Tennis in Japan -- 35. F.W. Strange and Rowing as a Sport in Japan -- 36. David Lean (1908-1991) -- 37. G.E. Morrison (1862-1920).
38. Ernest Thomas Bethell (1872-1909) -- 39. The Death of James Melville Cox (1885-1940) in Tokyo on 29 July 1940: Arrests of British Citizens in Japan in 1940 and 1941 -- 40. George Gorman (1888-1956) -- PART VII: SCHOLARS -- 41. Charles Dunn (1915-1995) -- 42. P.G. O'Neill (1924-2012) -- 43. Charles Alfred Fisher (1916-1982) -- 44. Peter Lowe (1914-2012) -- 45. Albert Sydney Hornby (1898-1978) -- 46. Ōtsuka Hisao (1907-1996) -- 47. Saitō Takeshi (1887-1982) -- PART VIII: OTHER NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS -- 48. Mary Helena Cornwall Legh (1857-1941) -- 49. Eikichi Itoh (1911-2012) and Rosa Hideko Itoh (1921-2005) -- 50. Ron Duckenfield (1917-2010) -- 51. Field Marshal Sir Francis W. Festing (1912-1976) -- 52. John Mathews James (1835-1908) -- APPENDIX I -- The Times and Japan in the Nineteenth Century -- APPENDIX I-A -- The Times Correspondents in Japan -- APPENDIX I-B -- Selected Letters to The Times Relating to Japanese Affairs -- APPENDIX I-C -- The Times Obituaries -- APPENDIX II -- Publications from the Satow Papersin Chronological Order -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- (1) Select Bibliography of Books in English on Japan -- (2) Select Bibliography of Books in Japanese on Japan -- Index of Names.
Summary: This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain & 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.
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Intro -- Biographical Portraits -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biographical Portraits in Japan Society Volumes -- PART I: POLITICIANS AND OFFICIALS -- 1. Iwakura Tomomi (1825-1883) -- 2. Utsunomiya Tarō (1861-1922) -- 3. Makino Shinken (Nobuaki) (1871-1949) -- 4. Miyazawa Kiichi (1919-2007) -- 5. Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) -- 6. Edward Grey (1862-1935) -- 7. Lt.Col. E.F. Calthrop (1876-1915) -- 8. Maj.Gen F.S.G. Piggott (1883-1966) -- 9. A.B. Mitford (1837-1916) -- 10. Korea,Taiwan and Manchuria: Britain's Consular Service in the Japanese Empire, 1883-1941 -- PART II: LAWYERS -- 11. British Lawyers in Japan 1859-1899 -- 12. Sir Hiram Shaw Wilkinson (1840-1926) -- 13. William Donald Patrick at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1946-48 -- PART III: ARTISTS, ART COLLECTORS AND ART DEALERS -- 14. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) -- 15. Walter Tyndale (1855-1943) -- 16. George Henry (1854-1934) and E.A. Hornel (1864-1933) -- 17. Hara Bushō (1866-1912) -- 18. Kurihara Chūji (1886-1936) -- 19. Ernest Hart (1835-1898) -- 20. William B. Sutherland (died 1945) -- 21. Yamanaka Sadajirō (1866-1936) -- 22. Matsukata Kōjirō (1865-1950) -- PART IV: POTTERS AND GARDEN DESIGNERS -- 23. Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963) -- 24. Matsubayashi Tsurunosuke (1894-1932) -- 25. Josiah Conder (1852-1920) -- 26. Handa Taki (1871-1956) -- PART V: WRITERS -- 27. Elizabeth Anna Gordon (1851-1925) -- 28. Douglas Sladen (1856-1947) -- 29. James Kirkup (1918-2009) -- 30. Virginia Woolf (1892-1941) -- 31. Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) -- 32. Yone Noguchi (1875-1947) -- PART VI: MUSIC, SPORT, FILM AND MEDIA -- 33. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) -- 34. British contribution to Tennis in Japan -- 35. F.W. Strange and Rowing as a Sport in Japan -- 36. David Lean (1908-1991) -- 37. G.E. Morrison (1862-1920).

38. Ernest Thomas Bethell (1872-1909) -- 39. The Death of James Melville Cox (1885-1940) in Tokyo on 29 July 1940: Arrests of British Citizens in Japan in 1940 and 1941 -- 40. George Gorman (1888-1956) -- PART VII: SCHOLARS -- 41. Charles Dunn (1915-1995) -- 42. P.G. O'Neill (1924-2012) -- 43. Charles Alfred Fisher (1916-1982) -- 44. Peter Lowe (1914-2012) -- 45. Albert Sydney Hornby (1898-1978) -- 46. Ōtsuka Hisao (1907-1996) -- 47. Saitō Takeshi (1887-1982) -- PART VIII: OTHER NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS -- 48. Mary Helena Cornwall Legh (1857-1941) -- 49. Eikichi Itoh (1911-2012) and Rosa Hideko Itoh (1921-2005) -- 50. Ron Duckenfield (1917-2010) -- 51. Field Marshal Sir Francis W. Festing (1912-1976) -- 52. John Mathews James (1835-1908) -- APPENDIX I -- The Times and Japan in the Nineteenth Century -- APPENDIX I-A -- The Times Correspondents in Japan -- APPENDIX I-B -- Selected Letters to The Times Relating to Japanese Affairs -- APPENDIX I-C -- The Times Obituaries -- APPENDIX II -- Publications from the Satow Papersin Chronological Order -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- (1) Select Bibliography of Books in English on Japan -- (2) Select Bibliography of Books in Japanese on Japan -- Index of Names.

This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain & 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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