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Ernest Mason Satow (1843–1929), a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist, spent his young years as a translator and interpreter at the British Japan Consular Service between 1862 and 1883. A...

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831–1904), the English author, photographer, and explorer, is one of the most intrepid foreigners to have traveled Japans interior during the late eighteen-seventies,...

“Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot.” John la Farge (1835–1910), t...

“Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot.” Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881–...

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645) is the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history; unfortunately, our modern portrait of this folk hero is derived mainly from popular books, comics, and...

Lucian Swift Kirtland (1881–1965), walking Japans ancient Tôkaidô and Nakasendô highroads on the eve of the First World War, is still very much the late-nineteenth centu...

Dies ist der gelungene Versuch uns der historischen Person Miyamoto Musashi, Japans berühmtesten Schwertkämpfer, zu nähern. W. de Lange forschte in Japan in den unterschiedlichsten Arch...

“I had been here before: I was going from being a mere interpreter to being a cultural interpreter. It was a dangerous path to tread.” Walking Japans ancie...