A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored (Stone Bridge Classics) Kindle Edition

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A brilliant linguist, Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) was recruited as a student interpreter into the consular service in 1861. He was sent to Japan, where he witnessed the Tokugawa Shogunate's overthrow and the Meiji Restoration. This 1921 account is based on the diaries Satow kept whilst in Japan. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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A 1921 account of the Meiji Restoration by a British diplomat who was stationed in Japan at the time. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00272NGVY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stone Bridge Press (February 1, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3489 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
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Aunty Glory

History of Japan from 1862 to 1882 as told by a young and eager diplomat from Britain

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2014

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This book is the definitive description of Japan at the time of the Meiji restoration. Ernest Satow kept meticulous notes on his experiences in Japan from 1862 to 1882. He arrived as an eager young man, excited by all that was around him and ambitious. Soon after Satow's arrival the Namamugi incident occurred. An Englishman named Richardson was cut down by samurai from Satsuma. his crime was to venture too close to the procession of the Prince of Satsuma who unfortunately was not as enlightened as his predecessor, Nariakira. Shimazu Hisamitsu was on his way to Yedo to pay his respects to the Shogun. This caused an international problem in which the British demanded restitution from the Shogun. This story unfolds as do many other pieces of history during that era. Occasionally Satow shows his prejudice as an Englishman but mostly he is a very good observer and tries to be open-minded. For anyone interested in that era of Japanese history this book is a must-read

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Cliente Kindle

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017

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An historical account by a very well esteemed diplomat

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Horseman

Seeing history as it was made

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2011

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Satow describes in detail Britain's diplomatic involvement in the opening of Japan and Meiji Restoration. He was a junior member of the diplomatic corps at the time, but as one of the first English-Japanese interpreters in the British foreign service attended many important meetings. As a history of events as they occurred in this interesting period in Japan the book is unrivalled.

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reynold spector

excellent book for history buffs

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016

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Ian Ruxton

For me this is the best Kindle version of Sir Ernest Satow's great book 'A ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2016

For me this is the best Kindle version of Sir Ernest Satow's great book 'A Diplomat in Japan'. It closely resembles the 1921 first edition which I own, and the page numbers in the hyperlinked table of contents are correct as well, which is more than can be said for recent paperback editions. In fact there are also transcriber's notes at the back, a properly functioning index with hyperlinks, and even the advertisements for other books from the 1921 edition have been included! Highly recommended.
I have edited and published Satow's diaries for the period covered by this book (1861-69) with Robert Morton (Kyoto: Eureka Press, 2013). I have also so far edited Satow's diaries for 1870-1883, 1895-1900, 1900-1906 and 1906-1911 (not on amazon yet).

A Diplomat In Japan, Part II: The Diaries Of Ernest Satow, 1870-1883
The Diaries Of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister In Tokyo (1895-1900): A Diplomat Returns To Japan
The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06), Vol. 1
The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06), Vol. 2

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Ian Ruxton

a remarkable work

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2008

The mere fact that this book has been through many paperback editions since it first appeared as a hardback published in London by Seeley Service in 1921 is on its own a powerful testament to its enduring fascination. This edition is the latest in a long line, and this reviewer hopes that it will never go out of print. (As a Kindle edition has recently been produced this seems unlikely, unless the Kindle itself heralds the end of printed books!)

What is the secret of its popularity? First, it is an eye-witness account by an acutely sensitive and intelligent insider, which many would argue is one of the best kinds of history. Based mainly on his diaries, it depicts not only the political situation of Japan, but also the social conditions of a society on the threshold of an enormous change: the Meiji restoration.

The eyes are those of a sympathetic Westerner who was able to master the Japanese language in a time when there were hardly any text books available, and who later became one of the foremost japanologists of the 19th century. (Of course this is to say nothing of his subsequent career as a top British diplomat and the original author of the Guide to Diplomatic Practice, now in its 6th edition pubd. 2009.)

Ian Ruxton, editor of A Diplomat in Japan, Part II: The Diaries of Ernest Satow, 1870-1883 and several other Satow-related books which are also available on amazon.

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Ian Ruxton

brilliant personal record of Japan 1862-69

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2004

This is a classic, and deservedly so. Sir Ernest Satow's record of the late Tokugawa shogunate and its overthrow by the Meiji Restoration from the point of view a young student interpreter who later became interpreter and then Japanese Secretary to the British legation in Edo (now Tokyo) is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand this turbulent and fascinating period of Japan's history. Based chiefly on his diaries ("journals"), it was begun in Bangkok where Satow was Minister in the late 1880s and completed at last in Satow's retirement in England. It was first published in 1921, in London and New York. A distinguished and perceptive observer at all times, this is probably Sir Ernest's best and best-known work.

Ian Ruxton, editor of Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918 (Paperback) , also available on amazon.

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Insider knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2017

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This is a great book for getting a bit of insider insight into Japan in the last few decades of the 19th century.

Laurent Beaulieu

a great book

Reviewed in Canada on October 19, 2013

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Absolutely love this book, funny and witty, a look at Meiji Japan of 1880 from one of the great British diplomats of the time. It is specially interesting if you have been yourself in the Foreign Service, so many things are the same today.

馬西尾東

翻訳本で省略された写真、地図があった。

Reviewed in Japan on March 19, 2021

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本書の日本語訳は、岩波文庫の「一外交官の見た明治維新」坂田精一訳（1960年）である。
ところが、この翻訳には、原本にあった徳川慶喜や勝海舟らの写真、薩英戦争、下関戦争の地図が省略されている。「鮮明さを欠いている」からという理由らしい。
それが、本書にはちゃんと載っていたのがありがたい。
それだけでも本書を購入した価値がある。
著作権が切れたせいか、KINDLEでこんなに安く買える。

内容は、言わずと知れた、明治維新の第一級の歴史資料だ。

202１年４月に全く別の訳者による新たな翻訳が講談社から出た。その本の読者レビューによるとそちらでも写真、地図がないらしい。

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Ian Ruxton

素晴らしいかつ有名な幕末の記録

Reviewed in Japan on February 14, 2008

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この本は貴重な幕末の記録として大変お勧めである。主にサトウ自身の日記（ジャーナル）に基づいたものである。さらにその続きとして、2009年9月に A Diplomat in Japan, Part II: The Diaries of Ernest Satow, 1870-1883 が小生の編集によって初めて出版された。尚、英国公文書館（National Archives of the U.K.)に保管されているサトウ文書（Satow　Papers)の一部を紹介している小生のその他の本は下記に書いてある。

Sir Ernest Satow based this book mainly on his personal diaries of the period 1861-69. He began writing it in Bangkok in the 1880s and completed it in 1919 during his retirement in England at the urging of relatives. We can all thank his family for persuading him to complete this account and have it published in 1921. As a record of the experiences of one foreigner in a privileged position during the Bakumatsu period, interpreting between the British Ministers and the Japanese Government as well as the influential Satsuma and Choshu clans, it remains an unsurpassed classic.

Ian Ruxton, editor of

1) Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918 (Paperback) (2008年出版）
2) The Correspondence of Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister in Japan, 1895-1900 (2005年）
3) The Semi-Official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China (1895-1906) (2007年）
4) The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking, 1900-06 (Volume One, 1900-03) (2006年）
5) The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking, 1900-06 (Volume Two, 1904-06) (2006年）
6) The Diaries and Letters of Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929), a Scholar-Diplomat in East Asia (1998年）

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ようちゃん

I couldn't download this.

Reviewed in Japan on November 26, 2019

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kindleでダウンロードできませんでした。ほかの出版のはできたのに。安いからいいけれど。
I couldn't download this book on kindle...I ended up purchasing another edition.

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