Tales of Old Japan scientific american

scientific american

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Tales of Old Japan scientific americanThe member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866 70, he served as an attach with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay there, Mitford lived through a period of dramatic and tumultuous change in Japanese history. A feudal nation on his arrival, Japan had entered the era of