Victorians in Japan
Subtitle: In and Around the Treaty Ports
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781780939759
Subjects: Travelers; Japan, description and travel; Great britain, description and travel
Description: "An anthology of impressions, 'snapshots' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself.First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series."--Bloomsbury Publishing.