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Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906 (in English)
Cortazzi, Hugh (Author)
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Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906 (in English) - Cortazzi, Hugh
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Synopsis "Mitford's Japan: Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906 (in English)"
As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given to his contemporary Ernest Satow. Accordingly, this new paperback edition, which makes the Mitford memoirs available to a much wider audience, includes a wide selection of extracts from Mitford's bestselling Tales of Old Japan (1871) - what Mitford, according to Carmen Blacker, perceived as the essence of the Japanese spirit: 'heroic, ruthless, devotedly loyal, bloody and chivalrous'.