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(January 2013)| |Basil Hall Chamberlain| Basil Hall Chamberlain
October 18, 1850| |Died||February 15, 1935 Basil Hall
Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor
of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost
British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th
century. (Others included E. M. Satow and W. G. Aston.) He also
wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English.
He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-
volume encyclopedia Things Japanese, which first appeared in
1890 and which he revised several times thereafter. His
interests were diverse, and his works included a volume of
poetry in French. Chamberlain was born in Southsea (a part of
Portsmouth) on the south coast of England, the son of an Admiral
William Charles Chamberlain and his wife Eliza Hall, the
daughter of the travel writer Basil Hall. His younger brother
was Houston Stewart Chamberlain. He was broug