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A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese

Basil Hall Chamberlain - Personal Name;

Travelling in order to recover from a nervous breakdown, Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935) arrived in Yokohama, Japan, in May 1873. He was immediately fascinated by traditional Japanese culture. At the same time, the national drive for modernisation in the wake of the Meiji Restoration had created a demand for teachers of English. Chamberlain was taken on as a tutor in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, at the same time studying the Japanese language to such good effect that in 1886 he was made professor of Japanese and philology at the Imperial University (later Tokyo University). This 1888 Japanese primer is split into theoretical and practical parts: a Japanese grammar and a vocabulary of useful words and phrases. Chamberlain gives both literal and free translations of phrases and short texts for the learner. His encyclopaedia of Japan, Things Japanese (1890) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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Publisher: : Cambridge University Press., 2015
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9781316134405
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Subject(s): Language and Linguistics
Asian Language and Linguistics,
English Language and Linguistics: General Interest
Area Studies, Asian Studies
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Statement of Responsibility: Basil Hall Chamberlain

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316134405
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