1st Edition

The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1870-1883

Edited By Ian Ruxton Copyright 2016
by Routledge

PUBLISHED BY EUREKA PRESS, TOKYO, AND DISTRIBUTED BY ROUTLEDGE OUTSIDE JAPAN. The scholar and diplomat Sir Ernest Satow was the best-known Westerner who lived in Meiji Japan. Although he rose to become British Minister to Japan, the most interesting part of his career was the start of it, when he witnessed, and in a small way influenced, the fall of the Bakufu and the Meiji Restoration. This... Read more

Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

Preface by Ian Ruxton

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Chronology

Illustrations and Map

ERNEST MASON SATOW’S DIARIES

7 December 1870/ 27 May – 22 December 1871/ 17 January – 31 December 1872/ 1 January – 27 November 1873/ 24 September – 4 October 1874/ 23 July – 30 December 1875/ 1 January – 31 December 1876/ 1 January – 28 November 1877/ 9 January – 5 December 1878/ 6 April – 31 December 1879/ 1 January – 30 December 1880/ 1 January – 27 December 1881/ 16 January – December 1882/ 1-5 January 1883

Index

Biography

Ian Ruxton