Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850 1935) first encountered Japan on a
journey intended to promote the recovery of his health: he had
suffered a nervous breakdown while working for Barings Bank. In May
1873, he arrived in Yokohama, and was immediately fascinated by
traditional Japanese culture. The drive for modernisation had
created a need for teachers of English, and Chamberlain was taken
on as a tutor in the 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 of the Imperial University
(later Tokyo University). This book, first published in 1890, and
going into six editions over the next fifty years, is in the form
of an encyclopaedia, with topics from 'abacus' to 'zoology'. It
gives an affectionate account of aspects of Japanese culture which
Chamberlain realised were disappearing under the relentless impact
of Western influence."
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