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.

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.

Table of Contents

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.