01530 a2200301 4500 1903350077 20250317100408.0 250312042002GB eng 9781903350072 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng GTM thema 1F bisac GTB bic 1F bisac HIS021000 bisac HIS037060 bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 915.20431 bisac Hugh Cortazzi Mitford's Japan Memories and Recollections, 1866-1906 1 Oxford Routledge 20020829 338 p 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'. 1960 1960