Japan through Western eyes : manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941

Available as

Online

Summary

This collection makes available a wide range of English-language sources by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others documenting the political, cultural and social history...

This collection makes available a wide range of English-language sources by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1853 to the present. These include the papers of William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928), an American teacher in Japan in the 1870s and prolific author on Japanese subjects, and Harold S. Williams, an Australian businessman who lived in Japan for more than sixty years between 1919 and 1987. From earlier in the nineteenth century we include the Japanese manuscripts of Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), one of the first Europeans to teach Western medicine in Japan, held at the British Library.

Show More