Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906Psychology 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'. |
目次
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 |