An accomplished linguist and writer, A.B. Mitford was the outstanding chronicler of the Meiji Restoration, complementing the writings of his contemporary Ernest Satow. This book will be of particular interest to students and readers of Japanese history, as well as readers of nineteenth-century biography in general.
Robert Morton has a PhD from the University of Queensland in creative writing, an MA in linguistics from the University of York, a BA in history from the University of Sussex. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University in Tokyo since 2000. He edited and annotated the 1861-1869 diaries of Mitford’s colleague, Ernest Satow, with Ian Ruxton (Eureka, 2013). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the Asiatic Society Japan, the oldest academic journal in Japan.
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Plate section faces page 114 Foreword by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG Preface List of Plates 1 Yokohama October – December 1866 2 Edo October 1866 – May 1867 3 The Shogun January – April 1867 4 An Adventurous Journey July – August 1867 5 The Birth of the New Japan October 1867 – March 1868 6 Kyoto February – March 1868 7 Osaka March – July 1868 8 Tokyo August 1868 – January 1870 9 After Japa 1870 – 1906 10 The Return February – March 1906 11 The Legacy 1906 – Bibliography Acknowledgements Index