A Diplomat in Japan
The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19906079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernest Satow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Diplomat in Japan (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781316144671 |
| OpenAlex | W1550787616 |
| Open Library | OL29267172M |
| ISBN | 9781316144671 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
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 kept whilst in Japan between 1862 and 1869. As an interpreter he was present at many of the meetings between the diplomatic and military representatives of the Great Powers and of the Shogunate. Satow gives his opinions of the various officials he met, and describes the rising tensions that led to conflict between the Shogunate and the Emperor, civil war, and the reassertion of the Emperor's power. Satow's classic Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection
Ancient history · Emperor · Interpreter · Meiji period · Meiji Restoration · Political science · Power (physics) · Spanish Civil War · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture · biography · Diplomats · foreign relations · Great britain · Japan
Traditional Korean islanders encounters with the British navy in the 1880s
The Impact of the Telegraph on Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy during the Nineteenth Century
Reconsidering the Yokohama “Gold Rush” of 1859
From torture to fascination
Recording violence as crime in Karafuto, 1867–1875
Collision at Namamugi
Britain and Japan
Living on borrowed time
The Urakami incidents and the struggle for religious toleration in early Meiji Japan
Kido Takayoshi (1833-1877)
Léon Roches-Diplomat Extraordinary in the Bakumatsu Era
The Japanese Civil War (1868)-A British View
The British Role in the Meiji Restoration
Great Bearer
Commercial change and urban growth in early modern Japan
Between Statecraft and Humanism
Harmony' as Efficiency
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1956 - 2018 (63) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |