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Tales Of Foreign Settlements In Japan
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Author : Harold S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-07-09
Tales Of Foreign Settlements In Japan written by Harold S. Williams and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Here are twenty-five tales about the Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1859, and an additional ten strange stories that revoke around those times. The tales are historically accurate, sociologically significant and, most important of all, eminently readable. These Tales of Foreign Settlements in Japan are the product of years of painstaking and scholarly research by a writer who is a business man and a recognized authority on the history of the Foreign Concessions in Japan, a man who has resided here for over thirty-five years.
Tales Of The Foreign Settlements In Japan
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Author : Harold S. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Tales Of The Foreign Settlements In Japan written by Harold S. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Foreigners In Mikadoland
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Author : Harold S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Foreigners In Mikadoland written by Harold S. Williams and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Travel categories.
This is an account of life in the foreign communities and former Foreign Settlements or Concessions in Japan that flourished after Japan was opened to foreign trade in 1859. It tells of the imposters, the eccentrics, and the scandals, no less than the achievements of the scholars, the merchants, and the diplomats who contributed so much to the development of modern Japan. Here you will meet Townsend Harris, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan, the Grand Duke Alexander, and many other less well known, but just as interesting figures such as the energetic Rev. Bailey, the remarkable Mr. McLeod, and the Misses Butterfly and Chrysanthemum. All these events are portrayed in a series of chapters, arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order, each woven around some of the happenings of those times. Carefully researched, all of these events are historically accurate in every detail, and are written in Mr. Williams' highly enjoyable style.
Shades Of The Past
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Author : Harold S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Shades Of The Past written by Harold S. Williams and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with History categories.
Prowling among these stories about Japan one finds riffraff and gentlemen, pirates and warriors, saints and sinners, smugglers and legitimate businessmen. All those, in fact, who made up the foreign communities of Japan in the early days. Harold S. Williams tells about them with the same inimitable humor, irony, drama and whimsy that made his earlier Tales of the Foreign Settlements such a popular success. With due regard for historical accuracy he recreates those fantastic days and the furor and fun with which they were filled. Here you can enjoy the privileged social status of belonging to the Victorian Volunteer Steam Fire Engine Company of Yokohama; you can join those Japanese pirates who were the first to meet Englishmen; arbitrate Japan's first labor dispute, involving foreigners, of course; witness the massacre of forty thousand Japanese Christians; revel in Nagasaki when it was the Paris of the Far East; travel over the Tokaido when it was the most picturesque and colorful of the world's highways; watch at close range each gruesome detail of an act of harakiri; dive for sunken treasures; watch the world's largest wooden vessel burn to the water line; marvel at one of the greatest advertising feats of all time.
Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
language : en
Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
Release Date : 2007-02-01
Tales Of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford and has been published by Alan Rodgers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travelers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move -- all these are as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The recent revolution in Japan has wrought changes social as well as political; and it may be that when, in addition to the advance which has already been made, railways and telegraphs shall have connected the principal points of the Land of Sunrise, the old Japanese, such as he was and had been for centuries when we found him eleven short years ago, will have become extinct. . . . -- Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, "Lord Redesdale, G.C.V.O., K.C.B." Formerly Second Secretary to the British Legation in Japan
Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Tales Of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Japan categories.
Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : A. B. MITFORD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
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Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
Tales Of Old Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Japan categories.
Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : Baron Algernon
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-02
Tales Of Old Japan written by Baron Algernon and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-02 with categories.
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) - one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay there, Mitford lived through a period of dramatic and tumultuous change in Japanese history. A feudal nation on his arrival, Japan had entered the era of "Westernization" before he left some three years later. During that time, however, he quickly and thoroughly mastered the Japanese language and acted as an interpreter between the young Japanese Emperor and British royalty. Mitford's famous collection of classic tales (the first to appear in English) covers an engrossing array of subjects: grisly accounts of revenge, knightly exploits, ghost stories, fairy tales, folklore, a fascinating eyewitness account of a hara-kiri ceremony, gripping narratives of vampires and samurai, Buddhist sermons, and the plots of four Noh plays. A treasury, as well, of information on most aspects of Japanese life, with information on locales, customs, and characters, the illustrated volume delights as it entertains, chronicling acts of heroism, devotion, ruthlessness, and chivalry that illuminate the island nation's culture. "One of the first and in many ways still one of the best books on Japan." - The Japanese Times. "An excellent introduction to Japanese literature." - Mainichi Daily News. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Tales Of Old Japan
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Author : Lord Redesdale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Tales Of Old Japan written by Lord Redesdale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with categories.
The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either been compiledfrom official records, or have contained the sketchy impressions of passing travellers. Ofthe inner life of the Japanese the world at large knows but little: their religion, theirsuperstitions, their ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they move-all theseare as yet mysteries. Nor is this to be wondered at. The first Western men who came incontact with Japan-I am speaking not of the old Dutch and Portuguese traders andpriests, but of the diplomatists and merchants of eleven years ago-met with a coldreception. Above all things, the native Government threw obstacles in the way of anyinquiry into their language, literature, and history. The fact was that the Tycoon'sGovernment-with whom alone, so long as the Mikado remained in seclusion in hissacred capital at Kiôto, any relations were maintained-knew that the Imperial purplewith which they sought to invest their chief must quickly fade before the strong sunlightwhich would be brought upon it so soon as there should be European linguists capableof examining their books and records.