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Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports
Hardcover
Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan
General AsiaGeneral Political ScienceJapanese History
ISBN13: 9781780939759
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 8 2014
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.61
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself.
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