Travelling in order to recover from a nervous breakdown, Basil Hall
Chamberlain (1850-1935) arrived in Yokohama, Japan, in May 1873. He
was immediately fascinated by traditional Japanese culture. At the
same time, the national drive for modernisation in the wake of the
Meiji Restoration had created a demand for teachers of English.
Chamberlain was taken on as a tutor in the Imperial Japanese Naval
Academy, at the same time studying the Japanese language to such
good effect that in 1886 he was made professor of Japanese and
philology at the Imperial University (later Tokyo University). This
1888 Japanese primer is split into theoretical and practical parts:
a Japanese grammar and a vocabulary of useful words and phrases.
Chamberlain gives both literal and free translations of phrases and
short texts for the learner. His encyclopaedia of Japan, Things
Japanese (1890) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library
Collection.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| Authors: |
Basil Hall Chamberlain
|
| Dimensions: |
220 x 140 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
498 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-08047-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-108-08047-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781108080477 |
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