Japan and Britain After 1859
Japan and Britain After 1859

Author: Olive Checkland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1135786194

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This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century.

Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII

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Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2010-09-23

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 9004218033

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This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.

The Man Whistler
The Man Whistler

Author: Hesketh Pearson

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0755154312

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The American painter, James McNeil Whistler, aroused great controversy. His work also significantly influenced interior decoration. But Whistler was as famous for his biting wit, fights, quarrels and sharp attacks on art critics. Pearson here shows him as his friends saw him and adds fresh insight drawn from meetings with people who knew him.