Building Japan 1868-1876 | Richard Henry Brunton | Taylor & Francis eB

ABSTRACT

Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter One|4 pages

My Appointment to Japan

chapter Two|3 pages

The First Telegraph in Japan

chapter Three|4 pages

Laying out a New Settlement

chapter Four|2 pages

Water and Light

chapter Five|3 pages

Building Iron Bridges

chapter Six|4 pages

Osaka: An Interned City

chapter Seven|7 pages

Taming the Rivers

chapter Eight|2 pages

The Gold Mines of Sado 1

chapter Nine|4 pages

The Pioneer Railway in the Far East

chapter Ten|5 pages

Maps, 1 Surveys and Engineering Education

chapter Eleven|3 pages

The New Coinage

chapter Twelve|2 pages

The Great Fire in Tokio

chapter Thirteen|4 pages

The Craze for Steamers

chapter Fourteen|7 pages

Location of the Lighthouses

chapter Fifteen|5 pages

In the Historic Port of Nagasaki 1

chapter Sixteen|4 pages

Buying a Lighthouse Tender

chapter Seventeen|6 pages

My Visit to Satsuma

chapter Eighteen|3 pages

The American Warship Oneida

chapter Nineteen|4 pages

The Purchase of the Thabor

chapter Twenty|3 pages

The Jealous Japanese

chapter Twenty-One|5 pages

The Dockyard at Yokosuka

chapter Twenty-Two|3 pages

The Expedition to Formosa

chapter Twenty-Three|9 pages

Vicissitudes

chapter Twenty-Four|3 pages

Necessity, the Mother of Invention

chapter Twenty-Five|2 pages

Building Ships

chapter Twenty-Six|4 pages

Audience of the Emperor

chapter Twenty-Seven|4 pages

The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers

chapter Twenty-Eight|5 pages

Home Again with the Japanese in England

chapter Twenty-Nine|3 pages

Japanese Petroleum

chapter Thirty|9 pages

Women's Education in Japan

chapter Thirty-One|3 pages

The Japanese in Bad Temper

chapter Thirty-Two|4 pages

The Yokohama Harbour Scheme

chapter Thirty-Three|7 pages

Maintaining Discipline

chapter Thirty-Four|3 pages

Keeping up the Standard

chapter Thirty-Five|6 pages

The Riu Kiu Islands

chapter Thirty-Six|4 pages

Personal Judgements