Berkeley

réf. 91025901 — London 1891 Murray. Brown gold stamped cloth very good 245p. gold stamped. FIRST & ONLY EDITION R A R E This is the fascinating correspondence in terms of dated letters from one Japanese to another. Tokiwara wrote to his dear friend Yashiri while on a steam ship as sailed from Japan to London from August 30 1888 to August 9 1889. The letters cover a host of commentaries upon the foreign sights seen but of more importance concerned the modernization of Japan. Tokiwara was a visionary who sought to intellectually interpret Japan's position and thought on ways to improve his country. He wrote about agraian riots in Japan compares Japanese society class to that of Europe's intellectual differences of "Young Japan" to that of England irony of fate the English Queen & the Mikado Christianity defence of Harakiri "Versitile and Mimetic character of Japanese" Japan as "England of the East" lack of Japan's middle class Japanese Christianity Japanese attitudes towards Jews Jap- anese student riots of 1888 Art in Japan and England &c. unknown