Ghost of Namamugi
Subtitle: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War
Publisher: Global Books, Limited; Renaissance Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781898823834
Subjects: Japan, history; Great britain, foreign relations, japan; Japan, foreign relations, great britain; Great britain, foreign relations, 19th century
Description: In 1862, a British merchant was killed by samurai at Namamugi, a quiet village near Yokohama. One year later, a British fleet bombarded Kagoshima to extract reparations, reducing much of this south-western city to ash. This captivating re-telling, locates the story firmly within the wider context of British imperial expansion in East Asia.