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Charles Appleton Longfellow :twenty months in Japan, 1871-1873 /edited by Christine Wallace Laidlaw.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-245470

Description

208 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Travel
Description and travel.

Originator

Longfellow, Charles Appleton.
Laidlaw, Christine Wallace.

Contents

Introduction / Christine Wallace Laidlaw. -- Foreword / Diana Korzenik. -- Discovering Meiji Japan / Frederic A. Sharf. -- Arrival in Japan and audience with the Mikado. -- A trip to Hakodate. -- A trip in the Ainu country. -- From Hakodate to Yedo October 1871. -- Yokohama, Osaka and Nagasaki. -- Kioto and Yedo. -- Mt. Fuji and a new railroad. -- A house in Yedo and farewell to Japan. -- Appendix 1: Charles Longfellow's photographs / by Lauren Malcolm and Christine W. Laidlaw. -- Appendix 2: Joseph Alexander, Graf Von Hèubner's audience with the Emperor. -- Appendix 3: Charles E. De Long's reports on the trips to Yesso and from Hakodate to Yedo. -- Appendix 4: Thomas Gold Appleton, "Japanese art, a cabinet of ivory."

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Friends of the Longfellow House

Description

208 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200).
Gift of the Longfellow National Historic Park, October, 2000.

ISBN

0966220005
9780966220001

Call Number

Stacks DS809.L86 1998

Other People and Orgs

Longfellow, Charles Appleton

Material Type

Correspondence.

Places

Japan

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