Scottish Samurai - McKay, Alexander
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In early l868, the last Tokugawa Shogun was toppled from power by rebels with the help of Thomas Blake Glover. This is a biography of this man who is famed in Japan for his contribution to the birth of modern Japan and for his connection with the Madame Butterfly legend.
Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries. As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired Puccini's Madam Butterfly.

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Produktbeschreibung
In early l868, the last Tokugawa Shogun was toppled from power by rebels with the help of Thomas Blake Glover. This is a biography of this man who is famed in Japan for his contribution to the birth of modern Japan and for his connection with the Madame Butterfly legend.
Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries. As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired Puccini's Madam Butterfly.
Autorenporträt
Alexander McKay, as well as giving occasional talks on Thomas Blake Glover (he was also an adviser to a BBC Great Explorers documentary about him), and writing articles on Japan, continues to struggle with an account of his life offshore. He spent around thirty years in the oil industry, much of the time overseas but also more than a decade in the North Sea, and was traumatized by some horrific incidents. He still suffers from nightmares and is trying to exorcise these by writing about them. The father of two adult daughters and grandfather of three, he lives in Edinburgh with his Japanese wife of forty years.
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This is a great story; the sort that Bernardo Bertolucci would pay good money for. Financial Times