…d Japan: Biographical Portraits VII Complied & Edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi,Global Oriental and the Japan Society2010, 665 pages, ISBN: 978-1906876265 Review by Sean Curtin This is another superb volume in the Biographical Portraits series which profiles people who have contributed to enhancing Anglo-Japanese relations. In this impressive publication, edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, the achievements of 44 diverse individuals are chronicled ranging from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VIII Global Oriental in association with the Japan Society, 2010, 665 pages, ISBN: 978-1906876265 Edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Review by Sean Curtin This is another superb volume in the Biographical Portraits series which profiles people who have contributed to enhancing Anglo-Japanese relations. In this impressive publication, edited by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, the achievements of 44 diverse individuals are chronicled ranging from Prime Minister Neville…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits – Volume VIII marks a significant milestone in the acclaimed Biographical Portraits project which now strides towards its second decade of publication with the first volume coming out in 1994. The well respected series primarily profiles people who have enhanced and contributed to various aspects of Anglo-Japanese relations from the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present day. This new volume along with the previous Biographical Portraits books and…

…al Portraits, Volume X marks a new high point in this excellent series which profiles people, organizations, and themes related to Anglo-Japanese engagement. This new volume is bursting with energy, containing sixty-nine fascinating articles encompassing a breathtaking spectrum of subject matter. It also represents the largest volume in the series to date. The key standard bearers, Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Ian Nish, Jim Hoare, Gordon Daniels and Paul Norbury, who have each devoted over twenty-five…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. VI Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziGlobal Oriental Publishing (2007)ISBN-13: 9781905246335 This sixth volume of the Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits series continues to profile the lives of key individuals, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. Containing a total of thirty-three entries thoughtfully and meticulously compiled and written by some of the pre-eminent scholars of…

…d Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. VIII Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Global Oriental Publishing (2013)ISBN-13: 9789004246027 This eighth edition of the Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits series, published in 2013, contains fifty-two biographical essays from forty different contributors relating to the influential individuals in Anglo-Japanese relations from the Meiji period to the present day. Structured accordingly, this edition deals with personalities involved in…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. VII Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Global Oriental Publishing (2010)ISBN-13: 9781906876265 This volume of Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits offers up 47 essays written by 37 contributing experts on a range of individuals, groups and events that have impacted upon relations of Japan and Britain from the late Meiji to the middle of the 20th century. Included, are biographical essays on philosopher Bertrand Russell, architect Tatsuno…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziJapan Society and Global Oriental (2007)ISBN 978-1-905246-33-5 Review by Janet Hunter Since the publication of the first volume in 1994, the chapters in the volumes of the Biographical Portraits series have provided us with an increasingly complex and multifaceted picture of the human interaction at the heart of Anglo-Japanese relations, at all levels of society and in different spheres of activity. This volume, like its…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. IV Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Global Oriental Publishing (2002)ISBN-10: 190335014X The fourth edition of the Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits’ series, compiled and edited by former chairman of the Japan Society Hugh Cortazzi, offers a diverse and fascinating look at some of the figures behind Anglo-Japanese relations from the Bakumatsu period onwards. Like previous editions, this compilation of essays is written by esteemed…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. I Edited by Ian NishThe Japan Society and Global Oriental Publishing (1994)ISBN-10: 1873410271 A huge variety of individuals and groups have contributed toward over 400 years of Japanese-British relations. In this first edition of Biographical Portraits, editor Ian Nish pays special tribute to some of the key players who made a special contribution to relations during the late Bakumatsu and early Meiji periods of Japanese history. The range of writers…

…d Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. X Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Renaissance Books (2016)ISBN-13: 9781898823476 This tenth Volume in the series, comprising a total of sixty-nine essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of portraits and themes that celebrate the life and work of men and women, both British and Japanese, whose contributions are worthy of being remembered in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations. Here, the portraits of key figures range from Sir…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. IX Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Renaissance Books (2015)ISBN-13: 9781898823162 This book forms part of a series recording the lives of men, women and institutions who have played a significant role in the development of UK-Japan relations. The current volume, which contains 57 ‘portraits’, brings the Japan Society’s collection of individual memoirs to a cumulative total of nearly 500. When read together these give a many-faceted…

…d Japan: Biographical Portraits - Vol. V Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziThe Japan Society and Global Oriental Publishing (2004)ISBN-10: 1901903486 This fifth volume of portraits includes over forty British and Japanese personalities in a wide range of careers and activities whose lives and achievements in Japan and Britain are worthy of record. Compiled by former chairman of the Japan Society Sir Hugh Cortazzi, and written by distinguished scholars and researchers from both Japan and Britain, this…

…and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI Edited by Sir Hugh CortazziJapan Society and Global Oriental (2007)ISBN 978-1-905246-33-5 Review by Adrian Pinnington This book is the latest (and, sadly, probably the last) of the volumes about Anglo-Japanese relations that have been sponsored by the Japan Society of London since 1991. The series, together with two companion volumes on British and Japanese diplomats, now comprises nearly 250 essays. This volume contains an invaluable index for the…

…DF) Issue 65 (October 2016, Volume 11, Number 5) In June we celebrated the launch of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume X, the latest addition to a 25-year project documenting the lives of those involved in the development of the UK-Japan relationship. Volume X brings the count of these ‘pen-portraits’ up to over six-hundred, and is dedicated to all those who have contributed to the series; as Sean Curtin comments in his review, the writing of a biographical portrait has itself…

He had earlier contributed a portrait of ‘Frederick Cornes, 1837-1927, Founder and Senior Partner of Cornes and Company (1873-1911)’ to Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume IV, published by Japan Library in 2002. This book consists of a series of studies about Japanese shipping and shipbuilding. These are of interest to anyone specialising in Japanese economic history. It includes chapters on the rise of Japan’s modern shipping industry, the development of Japanese…

…rked under the guidance of Frank Brangwyn about whose connections with Japan Libby Horner has written an interesting biographical portrait in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VII published by Global Oriental for the Japan Society in 2010 [See our review in issue 29].During his studies Leach who was influenced by William Blake, Whistler, Ruskin and Augustus John, produced a number of fine etching of urban and rural scenes. One of his most famous etchings was one produced in…

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He contributed a biographical portrait of Frederick Cornes to Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume IV, Japan Library 2002. This volume also contained a biographical portrait by Merrick Baker-Bates of Peter Hewitt who was in charge of Cornes and Company in Japan from the 1950s to his death in 1982. Aspinall Cornes, as Cornes and company was called until 1873, was established in…

Our first review is of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits VII which is another superb volume in the acclaimed Biographical Portraits series that profiles people who have contributed to enhancing Anglo- Japanese relations. This seventh volume in a series, which also includes publications such as Britain and Japan 1859- 1991: Themes and Personalities and Japan Experiences: Fifty Years, One Hundred Views Post-War Japan…

…ted Japan Society supported books, "Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964: A Century of Diplomatic Exchange" and "Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI." Both were launched at an enjoyable joint event held on Tuesday 19th June at the Daiwa Foundation's Japan House in London. In this issue we are reviewing the Envoys book and our next issue will feature Biographical Portraits (for a preview see back-page). The main theme of this issue is new publications on recent Japanese…

The Japan Society is pleased to mark the publication of the eighth volume in the Britian and Japan: Biographical Portrait Series. This series covers the biographies of hundreds of British and Japanese personalities, whose lives and achievements are worthy of record. From great collectors to poets, journalists, scholars and diplomats, the series contains a great depth of research and some wonderful insights missing from general histories of Anglo-Japanese dealings. Sean Curtin considers the…

The late Dr Carmen Blacker wrote a biographical portrait of Professor Corner for volume V of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, which I edited and which was published in 2005. This concentrated on Professor Corner’s activities in Japan during the Japanese occupation from 1942-45 and on his relationships with Japanese scientists. In 1981 Professor Corner had written a book entitled The Marquis, which took as its main theme his…

… as Yanagita Kunio and the eccentric Minakata Kumagusu, who was the subject of a biographical portrait by Carmen Blacker (Britain and Japan; Biographical Portraits, volume I, ed. Ian Nish, Japan Library, 1994). In Japan as in Europe ‘great’ men needed to be kept amused and had their ‘fools’ or jesters. One of the most famous of these was Sorori Shinzaemon who served the ‘ruthless warlord’ Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598). Hideyoshi had an ‘inferiority complex about his appearance’ and confessed…

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…ces to these incidents in volume VIII of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits just published. See chapter 39 on ‘The Death of James Melville Cox…and Arrests of British Citizens in Japan in 1940 and 1941’. Burke Gaffney gives a fuller account. Back to Reviews Share this: Japan Society website uses cookies for functional and analytical purposes. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information. Click here to accept

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He has contributed various portraits of British judges and lawyers who practised in 19th century Japan to the series Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits. In this meticulously researched book, he presents a detailed account of the work of the British courts operating in Japan under the terms of the 1858 Treaty [see note 1]. As Roberts points out, the extra-territorial provisions of the Treaty were readily accepted by the Tokugawa bakufu as their main…

Unlike the Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits series which aims at providing a comprehensive biographical account of key individuals, Japan Experiences is more personal in its elucidation. As Hugh Cortazzi himself highlights, “if impressions of those years are not recorded now they may never be as memories fade and people pass on.” Shopping Info P&P not included. Postage price will be…

… was also published before our volume VII of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits [review in this issue] which contains a number of portraits of British and Japanese architects namely Tatsuno Kingo, who studied under Josiah Conder and then in Britain and Europe, Wells Coates, who was described by Anna Basham as “Modernist Japonisme,” and Thomas James Waters who designed among other Meiji buildings the mint in Osaka, Takebashi barracks in Tokyo and who inspired ‘Ginza Bricktown.’ The essay…

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At the heart of our catalogue is the Biographical Portraits series, ten volumes recording the lives of over 600 men, women and institutions who have played a significant role in the development of UK-Japan relations. This series appears on The Japan Society E-Library alongside its sister publications, Japanese Envoys in Britain, British Envoys in Japan and Japan Experiences, and will soon by joined by other recent…

… stated that he wanted the papers for the final 10th volume in his long series entitled Britain and Japan Biographical Portraits to be delivered in time for his 90th birthday. This was intended as an inducement for sluggish contributors like me to speed up. He achieved his object: the volume was published in 2016. But he had a surprise still in store for us. He pulled a rabbit out of the hat, the present volume dealing with court relations between the two countries and the role they played,…

…vious contact had been a somewhat scratchy exchange of letters over a possible contribution to a volume of Biographical Portraits that I edited, I found her easy to talk to and charming. Our main common ground was her first book, on Fukuzawa Yukichi, which had been published in 1964, as I started my own far less distinguished career in Japanese Studies. Reading this fascinating mixture of her diaries, more formal writings and reminiscences by those who knew her makes me wish I had known her…

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…nd Peace "Koizumi no Shori, Media no Haiboku" (Victory for Koizumi, Defeat for the Media) Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, volume VI The Japanese Housewife Overseas Long Nights Alone Reader's comments: Long Nights Alone Hula Girls Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists Under the Sun (Preview) Contributors EditorSean CurtinManaging EditorClare Barclay ReviewersSir Hugh Cortazzi, Fumiko Halloran, Janet Hunter, J. Sean Curtin, Clare Keen,…

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Some other matches, as Koyama Noboru has explained in an essay in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume IV (Japan Library, 2002), ended in failure. Some British diplomats, officials and others in the Meiji period, such as the outstanding diplomat Sir Ernest Satow, had Japanese mistresses or common law wives which they hid from the prudish eyes of Victorians in Britain. Some others, who made their home in Japan such as Captain Frank Brinkley, insisted on marrying…

…g to date Japanese translations of Beatrix Potter back a mere 40 years; according to our own Biographical Portraits, the first translation of The Tale of Peter Rabbit appeared in 1906). I do hope that now that travel has resumed both to and from Japan, plenty of Japanese tourists will again make the pilgrimage up to Cumbria in this year of the rabbit. The Japan Society, meanwhile, will be marking the new year with three sessions of a rather splendid Kakizome, or new year's calligraphy, workshop…

…, 1862-1964: A Century of Diplomatic Exchange Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VI Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire Contributors EditorSean CurtinManaging EditorClare Barclay ReviewersTakahiro Miyao, Fumiko Halloran, Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Ann Dent, J. Sean Curtin, Ian Nish, Sir Graham Fry, Adrian Pinnington and Ben-Ami Shillony Download the PDF Back to Reviews Share this: Japan Society website uses…

Some other matches, as Koyama Noboru has explained in an essay in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume IV (Japan Library, 2002), ended in failure. Some British diplomats, officials and others in the Meiji period, such as the outstanding diplomat Sir Ernest Satow, had Japanese mistresses or common law wives which they hid from the prudish eyes of Victorians in Britain. Some others, who made their home in Japan such as Captain Frank Brinkley, insisted on marrying…

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… of Phillida Purvis's account of the life and work of the late Louis Allen in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume V, Global Oriental 2004. I also regret that the Professor in his comments on Rudyard Kipling does not seem to have been aware of Kipling's response to Japan as seen in his account of his visits to Japan (Kipling's Japan, edited by Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, Athlone Press, 1988). I also think that he is rather unfair about Basil Hall Chamberlain. Chamberlain was no…

…e events in Chapter 47 of Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume VII to be published in the early autumn of 2010. This is by Douglas Busk, who was head of chancery in the British Embassy in Tokyo at that time, and is entitled a “Disorderly Upside Down Affair.” Back to Reviews Share this: Japan Society website uses cookies for functional and analytical purposes. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information. Click here to accept

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