Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters, Volume One: Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a pioneer Japanologist, 1870-1918

by Ian Ruxton

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 George Aston (1841-1911)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CS3W849B
• ISBN13: 9798875758423
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"