William George Aston (April 9, 1841-1911) was a British consular official in Japan and Korea. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. He made a major contribution to the fledgling study of Japan's language and history (Japanology) in the 19th century. The National Portrait Gallery in London has a crayon drawing of Aston by Minnie Agnes Cohen, apparently the only known likeness of him.
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Aston was also one of the three major British Japanologists active in Japan during the 19th century, along with Ernest Mason Satow and Basil Hall Chamberlain. Japanese Studies (aka Japanology) is the study of Japan. Japanology and Japanese studies are terms generally used in Europe to describe the historical For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Sir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, (June 30 1843 - August 26 1929 known in Japan as アーネスト・サトウ was an outstanding British Scholar Basil Hall Chamberlain ( 18 October 1850 &ndash 15 February 1935) was a professor of Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost He was the first translator of the Nihongi into English. He lectured to the Asiatic Society of Japan several times. Asiatic Society of Japan (Nihon Ajia Kyoukai 日本アジア協会） The Asiatic Society of Japan was founded in 1872, five years after the Meiji restoration
In 1912 Cambridge University Library acquired 10,000 rare Japanese volumes from the collections of Aston and Ernest Satow which formed the starting point of the Library's vast collection. The Cambridge University Library is the centrally-administered library of the University of Cambridge in England. Sir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, (June 30 1843 - August 26 1929 known in Japan as アーネスト・サトウ was an outstanding British Scholar
Works
- W. G. Aston 1879, ‘H. M. S. Phaeton at Nagasaki’, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan volume 7: pp. Asiatic Society of Japan (Nihon Ajia Kyoukai 日本アジア協会） The Asiatic Society of Japan was founded in 1872, five years after the Meiji restoration 323-336
- W. G. Aston (trans. ), Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A. The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. D. 697, London: Kegan Paul 1924. (First published much earlier)
- W. G. Aston Shinto, the Way of the Gods, London: Longmans Green and Co. is the native religion of Japan and was once its State religion. 1905.
Letters to Aston
- Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W. Sir Ernest Mason Satow PC, GCMG, (June 30 1843 - August 26 1929 known in Japan as アーネスト・サトウ was an outstanding British Scholar G. Aston and F.V. Dickins edited by Ian Ruxton with an introduction by Peter Kornicki, Lulu Press Inc, December 2007
See also
- The entry about Aston by Joseph Henry Longford in the 1901-11 supplement to the Dictionary of National Biography. Frederick Victor Dickins (1838-1915 was a British surgeon Barrister, orientalist and university administrator Peter Francis Kornicki is Professor of East Asian Studies at Cambridge University. Joseph Henry Longford (born June 25 1849 in Dublin - died May 12 1925 in London was a British consular official in the British Japan Consular Service from February 24 1869 The Dictionary of National Biography ( DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history published from 1885
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- British Japan Consular Service
External links
- Aston, Cambridge and Korea by Peter Kornicki, on the website of the East Asia Institute at Cambridge University
- The History of Japanese Literature by W. Britain had a functioning consular service in Japan from 1859 after the signing of the 1858 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce between James Bruce 8th Earl of Elgin Peter Francis Kornicki is Professor of East Asian Studies at Cambridge University. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the G. Aston (Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1899)
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