298pp, plus numerous monochrome plate illustrations. In blue cloth boards with silver lettering and red decorations on the spine. Coloured and illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn, rubbed over spine and gently pushed at corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original paper dust wrapper, illustrated. Dust jacket is worn, rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, chapped along upper edge, with a tape repair along rear joint.
In 1808 the youbg Emperor Matsuhito came to power in Japan and began the country's adventurous and dynamic Meiji Era. Barr takes this as a starting point for this, her second book, on western settlements in Japan and westerner's increasingly fruitful and complex relationships with their hosts.
