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

• TeilnehmendeR: Cortazzi, Hugh.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Britain and Japan 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (698 p.)
• Notes: Japan Society paperback edition.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283470667; 9786613470669; 9004218033
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi.

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.