Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918

by Ian Ruxton and Ernest Satow

LARGE PAPERBACK. The distinguished British scholar-diplomat Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929) was one of the most prominent and pre-eminent Japanologists in the Victorian era when the subject was newly created as Japan began to open its doors to foreigners from the mid-1850s. He shared this honour with Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) and the two addressees of the letters reproduced here by permission of the U.K. National Archives: co-worker William...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435710002
• ISBN13: 9781435710009
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"