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A Diplomat in Japan The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution…
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ATOW,Ernes

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…

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9781316144671
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Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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