Satow (1843-1929) arrived in Japan in 1862 and remained there for 21 years as a secretary of the British Legation of Tokyo, becoming an avid student of Japanese language, history, religion, and customs. He later served as Minister in Siam, Uruguay, Morocco, and China. He died at age 86 in England.
Preface
1. Appointment as student interpreter at Yedo
2. Yokohama society, official and unofficial
3. Political conditions in Japan
4. Treaties, anti-foreign spirit, murder of foreigners
5. Richardson's murder, Japanese studies
6. Official visit to Yedo
7. Demands for reparation
8. Bombardment of Kagoshima
9. Shimonoseki: preliminary measures
10. Shimonoseki: naval operations
11. Shimonoseki: peace concluded with Choshiu
12. The murder of Bird and Baldwin
13. Ratification of the treaties by the Mikado
14. Great fire at Yokohama
15. Visit to Kagoshima and Uwajima
16. First visit to Ozaka
17. Reception of foreign ministers by the tycoon
18. Overland from Ozaka to Yedo
19. Social intercourse with Japanese officials
20. Nanao to Ozaka overland
21. Ozaka and Tokushima
22. Tosa and Nagasaki
23. Downfall of the Shogunate
24. Outbreak of civil war (1868)
25. Hostilities begun at Yedo and Fushimi
26. The Bizen affair
27. First visit to Kioto
28. Harakiri
29. Massacre of French sailors at Sakai
30. Kioto
31. Return to Yedo
32. Miscellaneous incidents
33. Capture of Wakamatsu and entry of the Mikado into Yedo
34. Enomoto with the runaway Tokugawa ships seizes Yezo
35. 1869: audience of the Mikado at Yedo
36. Last days in Tokio and departure for home
Glossary
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