I’m a little late in making this announcement:
It’s been some time since I wrote a blog having moved to another post, but before I digress further let me tell you about a new publication.
Britain & Japan Biographical Portraits, Volume VII, compiled and edited by Hugh Cortazzi (Global Oriental, 2010).
This, the seventh book in the series, has chapters on many characters who have played a role in Anglo-Japanese Relations. This particular tome includes chapters on Nakai Hiromu’s good friend Inoue Kaoru (written by Andrew Cobbing) and one of Josiah Conder’s (of Rokumeikan fame) students Tatsuno Kingo (written by Ian Ruxton) as well as British diplomat Francis O. Adams (written by Hugh Cortazzi) along with a plethora of other interesting and key persons.
It had long been a dream of mine to get a chapter on Nakai Hiromu in this excellent series and finally that dream has come true!
More about the publication can be seen here.
Great series! I like works of Tatsuno Kingo and Katayama Tokuma, and other great Meiji archtecture, though maybe somewhat imperialistic… I wonder whether anyone who had some relation to Scotland is included in this series.