 EDITED BY
Hugh Cortazzi
ISBN 978-1-901903-48-5 - 640pp - Illus. - Case
November 2004 - £65.00
The fifth volume in this highly acclaimed series featuring pen-portraits by distinguished scholars and researchers of the leading names in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations since the re-opening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, contains over forty entries, making it the largest volume to date. The portraits include Prince and Princess Chichibu, the statesman Suematsu Kencho, Lord Curzon, Ambassador to London Hayashi Gonsuke, Admiral Sir John Fisher, the poet G.S.Fraser and the scholar Louis Allen. Themes treated include the early history of Mitsui in London, poets and artists in Japan, Japanese translators of Shakespeare.
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