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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Japanese-English translators, Ernest Mason Satow, V. H. Viglielmo, Edward Seidensticker, Hugh Cortazzi, Jeffrey Angles, Donald Keene, Edwin McClellan, Leza Lowitz, Jeremy Blaustein, William George Aston, Robert Epp, Arthur Waley, Alexander O. Smith, Royall Tyler, Carl Steenstrup, Harry Behn, William J. Higginson, Zhou Zuoren, Robin D. Gill, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Frederik L. Schodt, William Scott Wilson, Ted Woolsey, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Hideo Levy, Burton Watson, Ivan Morris, Edward Kamens, Jay Rubin, Edna W. Underwood, J. Martin Holman, Arthur Braverman, Edwin Cranston, Kenneth Yasuda, Seigo Nakao, Juliet Winters Carpenter, John Nathan, E. Dale Saunders, Michael Gallagher, Howard Hibbett, Nancy Andrew, Helen Craig McCullough, John Sears, John Whittier Treat, John Bester, Alfred Birnbaum, Robert Anthony Siegel, Clyde Mandelin, Dorothy Britton, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Jan Van Bragt, Tom Hare, A. L. Sadler, William E. Naff, Joyce Ackroyd, Don Philippi, Leon Zolbrod, Philip Gabriel, Karen Brazell, Beongcheon Yu, J-Net, Kaoru Moriyama. Excerpt: Sir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, (30 June 1843 - 26 August 1929), known in Japan as "" ( nesuto Sat ), known in China as (traditional Chinese) " " or (simplified Chinese) "," was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist. Satow was born to an ethnically German father (Hans David Christoph Satow, born in Wismar, then under Swedish rule, naturalised British in 1846) and an English mother (Margaret, nee Mason) in Clapton, North London. He was educated at Mill Hill School and University College London (UCL).Satow was an exceptional linguist, an energetic traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist (chiefly with F.V. Dickins) and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects before the Japa...
