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Noboru Koyama, Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan

小山騰『破天荒明治留学生列伝大英帝国に学んだ人々』

*Other writings by Koyama Noboru: The First International Marriage in Japan (in Japanese)

 

 

David G. Wittner, Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (Asaa) East Asia Studies)

デイヴィッド・G・ウィットナー『明治日本のテクノロジーと進歩の文化』

 

 

Yukichi Fukuzawa, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization

福澤諭吉『文明論之概略』

*Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) was a Japanese educator, author and journalist, who founded the Keio Gijuku University.  He was an introducer of the Western thoughts, political and economic systems, and was a most influential enlightenment thinker in Meiji Japan.

Rosina Buckland, Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Transformation of Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan (Japanese Visual Culture)

ロジーナ・バックランド『国民のための自然画―瀧和亭と明治日本における中国趣味文化の変容』

*Taki Katei (1830-1901) was a Japanese painter in the style of Southern China School.