Britain & Japan : biographical portraits / edited by Ian Nish.

Contributor(s): Nish, Ian Hill. (Harvard local name) | Cortazzi, Hugh | Japan Society (London, England)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Folkestone : Japan Library, 1994-<2015>Description: v. ; 23 cmISBN: 1873410271; 190335014X (v. 4); 1901903486 (v. 5); 9789004246027 (v. 8); 9781898823117 (v. 9)Other title: Britain and Japan | Biographical portraits | Britain and Japan : biographical portraitsSubject(s): Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography | Japanese -- Great Britain -- Biography | Diplomats -- Japan -- Biography | British -- Japan -- Biography | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Japan -- Biography | Japan -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Biography | Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan -- Biography | Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- BiographyGenre/Form: BiographyDDC classification: 327.41052 LOC classification: DA47.9.J3 | B73 1994
Contents:
Sir Harry Parkes, 1828-1885 / Hugh Cortazzi -- British journalists in Meiji Japan / James Hoare -- British missionaries in Meiji Japan / Helen Ballhatchet -- 'Working at their profession': Japanese engineers in Britain before 1914 / Olive Checkland -- Maejima Hisoka, 1853-1919: founder of Japan's postal system / Janet Hunter -- Isabella Bird, 1831-1904 / Pat Barr -- Minikata Kumagusu, 1867-1941: a genius now recognized / Carmen Blacker -- Armstrong's, vickers and Japan / Marie Conte-Helm -- The silent admiral: Tōgō Heihachirō (1848-1934) and Britain / Kiyoshi Ikeda -- Japan' Adoption of the gold standard and the London money market, 1881-1903: Matsukata, Nakai and Takhashi / Norio Tamaki -- Sir Claude and Lady Ethel MacDonald / Ian Nish -- The Japan-British exhibition of 1910: the Japanese organizers / Ayako Hotta-Lister.
(Cont.) 'In one day I have lived many lives': Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, novelist and diplomat, (1889-1976) / Ian Nish -- Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956 / Carmen Blacker -- The Mingei movement and Bernard Leach / Hugh Cortazzi -- Tsuneo Matsudaira, diplomat and courtier (1877-1949) / Ian Nish -- Gordon Munro: ventures in Japanese archaeology and anthropology / Jan Wilkinson -- Sir Robert Craigie as Ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941 / Antony Best -- R.H. Blyth, 1898-1964 / Adrian Pinnington -- Otome and Frank Daniels / Ronald Dore -- Sir Alvary Gascoigne in Japan, 1946-1951 / Peter Lowe -- Split images: occupied Japan through the eyes of British journalists and authors / Roger Buckley.
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D 59 .R67 1968 Les Empires universels, IIe-IVe siècles ... D 118 .R5 1968 Grandes invasions et empires, Ve-Xe siècles ... DA 47 .9 .J3 B73 1994 4 Britain & Japan : biographical portraits / DA 47 .9 .J3 B73 1994 5 Britain & Japan : biographical portraits / DA 142 .S88 1977 Stonehenge : the Indo-European heritage / DC 611 .P96 C55 1 Provence antique / DC 611 .P96 C55 2 Provence antique /

Vol. 4-5, 8-9 edited by Hugh Cortazzi.

Vol. 5 has imprint: Folkestone : Global Oriental, vol. 9 has imprint: Folkestone : Renaissance Books.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sir Harry Parkes, 1828-1885 / Hugh Cortazzi -- British journalists in Meiji Japan / James Hoare -- British missionaries in Meiji Japan / Helen Ballhatchet -- 'Working at their profession': Japanese engineers in Britain before 1914 / Olive Checkland -- Maejima Hisoka, 1853-1919: founder of Japan's postal system / Janet Hunter -- Isabella Bird, 1831-1904 / Pat Barr -- Minikata Kumagusu, 1867-1941: a genius now recognized / Carmen Blacker -- Armstrong's, vickers and Japan / Marie Conte-Helm -- The silent admiral: Tōgō Heihachirō (1848-1934) and Britain / Kiyoshi Ikeda -- Japan' Adoption of the gold standard and the London money market, 1881-1903: Matsukata, Nakai and Takhashi / Norio Tamaki -- Sir Claude and Lady Ethel MacDonald / Ian Nish -- The Japan-British exhibition of 1910: the Japanese organizers / Ayako Hotta-Lister.

(Cont.) 'In one day I have lived many lives': Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, novelist and diplomat, (1889-1976) / Ian Nish -- Yoshio Markino, 1869-1956 / Carmen Blacker -- The Mingei movement and Bernard Leach / Hugh Cortazzi -- Tsuneo Matsudaira, diplomat and courtier (1877-1949) / Ian Nish -- Gordon Munro: ventures in Japanese archaeology and anthropology / Jan Wilkinson -- Sir Robert Craigie as Ambassador to Japan, 1937-1941 / Antony Best -- R.H. Blyth, 1898-1964 / Adrian Pinnington -- Otome and Frank Daniels / Ronald Dore -- Sir Alvary Gascoigne in Japan, 1946-1951 / Peter Lowe -- Split images: occupied Japan through the eyes of British journalists and authors / Roger Buckley.

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