Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906

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Psychology Press, 2001 - 307 ページ

As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given to his contemporary Ernest Satow. Accordingly, this new paperback edition, which makes the Mitford memoirs available to a much wider audience, includes a wide selection of extracts from Mitford's bestselling Tales of Old Japan (1871) - what Mitford, according to Carmen Blacker, perceived as the essence of the Japanese spirit: 'heroic, ruthless, devotedly loyal, bloody and chivalrous'.

 

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Feudalism in Japan
15
An adventurous journey
47
Civil war
61
Mukashi
94
The Mikado
108
Sensation diplomacy
123
Betwixt old and new
148
The reception of the Duke of Edinburgh
163
The Garter Mission 1906
195
Gardens in Japan
238
Notes
291
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