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A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored
A brilliant linguist, Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) was recruited into the British consular service as a student interpreter in 1861. The following year he arrived in Japan, where he witnessed the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji restoration of imperial rule. Drafted in the 1880s while he was consul-general in Bangkok, this 1921 account is based on the voluminous diaries Satow kept whilst in Japan between 1862 and 1869. As an interpreter he was present at many of the meetings between the diplomatic and military representatives of the Great Powers and of the Shogunate. Satow gives his opinions of the various officials he met, and describes the rising tensions that led to conflict between the Shogunate and the Emperor, civil war, and the reassertion of the Emperor's power. Satow's classic Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored
A brilliant linguist, Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) was recruited into the British consular service as a student interpreter in 1861. The following year he arrived in Japan, where he witnessed the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji restoration of imperial rule. Drafted in the 1880s while he was consul-general in Bangkok, this 1921 account is based on the voluminous diaries Satow kept whilst in Japan between 1862 and 1869. As an interpreter he was present at many of the meetings between the diplomatic and military representatives of the Great Powers and of the Shogunate. Satow gives his opinions of the various officials he met, and describes the rising tensions that led to conflict between the Shogunate and the Emperor, civil war, and the reassertion of the Emperor's power. Satow's classic Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
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A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored

A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored

by Ernest Satow
A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored

A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored

by Ernest Satow

Overview

A brilliant linguist, Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) was recruited into the British consular service as a student interpreter in 1861. The following year he arrived in Japan, where he witnessed the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji restoration of imperial rule. Drafted in the 1880s while he was consul-general in Bangkok, this 1921 account is based on the voluminous diaries Satow kept whilst in Japan between 1862 and 1869. As an interpreter he was present at many of the meetings between the diplomatic and military representatives of the Great Powers and of the Shogunate. Satow gives his opinions of the various officials he met, and describes the rising tensions that led to conflict between the Shogunate and the Emperor, civil war, and the reassertion of the Emperor's power. Satow's classic Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108080958
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 03/05/2015
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
Pages: 442
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Satow (1843-1929) arrived in Japan in 1862 and remained there for 21 years as a secretary of the British Legation of Tokyo, becoming an avid student of Japanese language, history, religion, and customs. He later served as Minister in Siam, Uruguay, Morocco, and China. He died at age 86 in England.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Appointment as student interpreter at Yedo; 2. Yokohama society, official and unofficial; 3. Political conditions in Japan; 4. Treaties, anti-foreign spirit, murder of foreigners; 5. Richardson's murder, Japanese studies; 6. Official visit to Yedo; 7. Demands for reparation; 8. Bombardment of Kagoshima; 9. Shimonoseki: preliminary measures; 10. Shimonoseki: naval operations; 11. Shimonoseki: peace concluded with Choshiu; 12. The murder of Bird and Baldwin; 13. Ratification of the treaties by the Mikado; 14. Great fire at Yokohama; 15. Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima; 16. First visit to Ozaka; 17. Reception of foreign ministers by the tycoon; 18. Overland from Ozaka to Yedo; 19. Social intercourse with Japanese officials; 20. Nanao to Ozaka overland; 21. Ozaka and Tokushima; 22. Tosa and Nagasaki; 23. Downfall of the Shogunate; 24. Outbreak of civil war (1868); 25. Hostilities begun at Yedo and Fushimi; 26. The Bizen affair; 27. First visit to Kioto; 28. Harakiri; 29. Massacre of French sailors at Sakai; 30. Kioto; 31. Return to Yedo; 32. Miscellaneous incidents; 33. Capture of Wakamatsu and entry of the Mikado into Yedo; 34. Enomoto with the runaway Tokugawa ships seizes Yezo; 35. 1869: audience of the Mikado at Yedo; 36. Last days in Tokio and departure for home; Glossary; Index.
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