Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1915
Sprache: Englisch
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-library. Original maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Boards are dusty, spine and rear board shows minor pest damage, tips are slightly frayed. Pages are deckled with a gilded top-edge. Contains embossed stamps of Congregational Library, Boston, and spine bears pasted catalog number. Pages are clean and unmarked. This book is an attempt to convey, for a Western audience, the nature of the office of mikado (emperor) in Japan, its history, and in particular the Meiji emperor Mutsuhito (1868-1912). Under this leadership, and through a mikadoist culture, Griffis argues, Japan became a new and modern nation. William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and author. Hardcover, good condition. 346 pages, octavo.