Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV

by Cortazzi,Hugh; Cortazzi,Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781903350140
• ISBN10: 190335014X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-15
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to over one hundred. The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W.E.Ayrton to Henry Spencer Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold to Ivan Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the aviator Lord Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34 contributions.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Hugh Cortazzi
British Personalities and Japan, about whom monographs have been written	xiv
Lists of Biographical Portraits (in earlier volumes)	xvi
Alphabetical List of Contributors to this Volume	xix
PART 1: DIPLOMATS
Mori Arinori, 1847--89: from Diplomat to Statesman	3	(11)
Andrew Cobbing
Kato Takaaki, 1860--1929: Japanese ambassador to London and Japanese Foreign Minister	14	(14)
Ian Nish
Sir Francis Plunkett, 1835--1907: British Minister at Tokyo, 1884--87	28	(13)
Hugh Cortazzi
Hugh Fraser, 1837--94: British Minister at Tokyo, 1889--94	41	(12)
Hugh Cortazzi
Sir Ernest Satow (1843--1929) in Tokyo, 1895--1900	53	(11)
Ian Ruxton
Sir William Conyngham Greene, 1854--1934: British Ambassador to Japan, 1912--19	64	(14)
Peter Lowe
Sir John Tilley, 1869--1951: British Ambassador to Japan, 1926--31	78	(11)
Harumi Goto-Shibata
Sir Francis Lindley (1872--1950) and Japan	89	(12)
Ian Nish
Sir Robert Clive, 1877--1948: British Ambassador to Japan, 1934--37	101	(10)
Antony Best
PART 2: BUSINESSMEN
William Keswick, 1835--1912: Jardine's Pioneer in Japan	111	(7)
J.E. Hoare
Frederick Cornes, 1837--1927: Founder and Senior Partner of Cornes and Company (1873--1911)	118	(12)
Peter N. Davies
John Samuel Swire (1825--98) and Japan, 1867--98	130	(12)
Charlotte Bleasdale
Lasenby Liberty (1843--1917) and Japan	142	(12)
Sonia Ashmore
Peter Hewitt, 1920--82	154	(11)
Merrick Baker-Bates
PART 3: ENGINEERS & TEACHERS IN MEIJI JAPAN
Professor W.E. Ayrton, 1847--1908: the `Never-resting, Keen-eyed Chief'	165	(9)
Ian Ruxton
W.K. Burton, 1856--99: `Engineer Extraordinaire'	174	(13)
Olive Checkland
Henry Faulds, 1843--1930	187	(11)
Ian Nish
Henry Spencer Palmer, 1838--1893	198	(17)
Jiro Higuchi
PART 4: SCHOLARS & WRITERS
Nakamura Masanao (Keiu), 1832--91: translator into Japanese of Samuel Smiles' Self-Help	215	(9)
Akiko Ohta
Sir Edwin Arnold, 1832--1904: A Year in Japan, 1889--90	224	(9)
Carmen Blacker
Harold E. Palmer, 1877--1949	233	(14)
Richard C. Smith
Imura Motomichi
William Empson, Poet and Writer, 1906--84: Japan 1931--34	247	(18)
John Haffenden
Charles Boxer (1904--2000) and Japan	265	(10)
James Cummins
Ivan Morris, 1925--77	275	(14)
Nobuko Albery
PART 5: PHOTOGRAPHERS, JUDO MASTERS & JOURNALISTS
Frederick William Sutton, 1832--83: Photographer of the Last Shogun	289	(14)
Sebastian Dobson
Herbert George Ponting, 1870--1935: Photographer, Explorer, Inventor	303	(9)
Terry Bennett
Koizumi Gunji, 1885--1965: Judo Master	312	(11)
Richard Bowen
Trevor Pryce Leggett, 1914--2000	323	(11)
Anthony Dunne
Richard Bowen
The Japan Chronicle and its three editors: Robert Young, Morgan Young and Edwin Allington Kennard, 1891--1940	334	(14)
Peter O'Connor
Timothy or Taid or Taig Conroy or O'Conroy, 1883--1935: `The ``Best Authority, East and West'' on Anything concerning Japan'	348	(13)
Peter O'Connor
Freda Utley, 1899--1978: Crusader for Truth, Freedom and Justice	361	(14)
Douglas Farnie
PART 6: AN AVIATOR & TWO THEMES
Lord Sempill (1893--1965) and Japan, 1921--41	375	(8)
Antony Best
Three Meiji Marriages between Japanese Men and English Women	383	(14)
Noboru Koyama
Early Plant Collectors in Japan	397	(12)
Amanda Herries
Notes	409	(62)
Index	471