Item #110711 Makers of Japan. J. MORRIS.

Makers of Japan

London, Methuen, 1906.

Octavo, xix, 330 pages plus 24 plates.

Original blue cloth a little unevently sunned; extremities slightly bumped and rubbed; top corner and top edge slightly marked; flyleaves lightly offset; occasional emphases in blue pencil; extremities of a few leaves slightly torn (where, apparently, a little carelessly opened); a very good copy.

When Emperor Meiji died in 1912, Japan had gone from being an isolated, pre-industrial, feudal country dominated by the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyos, to a great power which had undergone political, social, and industrial revolution. The author travelled throughout Japan and met the influential men who brought about the end of the Tokugawa government, and who guided her on the path to modernization. Emperior Meiji, Prince Tokugawa Keika, Fujita Toko, Sakuma Shozan, Yoshida Sho-in, Marquis Ito, Prince Iwakura Tomomi, Prince Sanjo Sanetomi, Count Inouye Kaoru, Viscount Okubo Toshimichi, Count Goto Shojiro, Marsh- al Saigo Takamori, Field-Marshal Marquis Oyama, Fukuksawa Yukichi, Marquis Kido Koin, Copunt Itagaki, Count Matsukata Masayoshi, Admiral Viuscount Enomoto, Admiral Togo Heihachi and Baron Eichi Shibusawa.

Item #110711

Price (AUD): $110.00

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