Suematsu Kenchō itu apa sih?

Viscount  adalah seorang politisi, cendekiawan dan penulis Jepang, yang hidup pada zaman Meiji dan zaman Taishō. Selain beraktivitas dalam pemerintahan Jepang, ia juga menulis beberapa karya berpengaruh tentang Jepang ke dalam bahasa Inggris.

Suematsu Kencho: International Envoy to Wartime Europe, Ian Nish in 'On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War Part II', STICERD Discussion paper, LSE, No. IS/05/491, May 2005

Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan , by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton, (Lulu, September 2004, ISBN 1-4116-1256-6)

"Suematsu Kencho, 1855-1920: Statesman, Bureaucrat, Diplomat, Journalist, Poet and Scholar," by Ian Ruxton, Chapter 6, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume 5, edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Global Oriental, 2005, ISBN 1-901903-48-6

O'Brien, Phillips P. (2004). The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922. (London: RoutledgeCurzon).

Lister, Ayako Hotta (1995). The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East. (London: Routledge).

Cobbing, Andrew (1998). The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain. (London: Routledge).

M. Matsumura, Pōtsumasu he no michi: Kōkaron to Yōroppa no Suematsu Kenchō, pub. Hara Shobo, 1987, translated by Ian Ruxton with the English title Baron Suematsu in Europe during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05): His Battle with Yellow Peril (lulu.com, 2011) ISBN 978-1-105-11202-7 preview

M. Mehl (1993). "Suematsu Kenchô in Britain, 1878-1886", Japan Forum, 5.2, 1993:173-193.

Henitiuk, Valerie L. (2010). A Creditable Performance under the Circumstances? Suematsu Kenchô and the Pre-Waley Tale of Genji. In TTR: traduction, terminologie, redaction , Vol. XXIII, no. 1, p. 41-70.

Contains a translation of the first 17 chapters of The Tale of Genji, with an introduction and footnotes, by Suematsu.

, available here from Google Books.