Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781906876265)

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.

Author: Hugh Cortazzi
ISBN-10: 1906876266
ISBN-13: 9781906876265
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2010
Pages: 666
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.71w x 1.40d