What is Basil Hall Chamberlain?
[[File:Basil Hall Chamberlain.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Hall Chamberlain]] '''Basil Hall Chamberlain''' (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] academic, editor, translator, and [[Japan studies|Japanologist]]. Chamberlain is best known as the author of ''Things Japanese'', which was first published in 1890. ==Career== Along with [[Ernest Satow|Ernest Mason Satow]] and [[William George Aston]], Chamberlain was one of three major British [[Japan studies|Japanologist]]s during the 19th century. Chamberlain taught at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in [[Tokyo]] from 1874 to 1882. He was a professor of [[Japanese language]] at [[University of Tokyo|Tokyo Imperial University]] from 1886 to 1911. ==Selected works== In an overview of writings by and about Chamberlain, [[OCLC]]/[[WorldCat]] lists roughly 320+ works in 860+ publications in 6 languages and 6,100+ library holdings .<ref>[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities]: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-36958 Chamberlain, Basil Hall 1850-1935]; retrieved 2012-11-1.</ref> :''This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.'' *''The Classical Poetry of the Japanese,'' 1880 *''A Translation of the 'Ko-Ji-Ki','' 1883 *''The Language, Mythology, and Geographical Nomenclature of Japan Viewed in the Light of Aino Studies,'' 1887 *''Aino Folk-Tales,'' 1888 *''A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese,'' 1887 *''Things Japanese,''1890 *''A Handbook for Travellers in Japan,'' 1891 *''Essay in aid of a grammar and dictionary of the Luchuan language,'' 1895 ==Related pages== * [[Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan]] ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{wikisource author|Basil Hall Chamberlain}} * [http://viaf.org/viaf/59183563/ Chamberlain, Basil Hall, 1850-1935 at Visual International Authority File (VIAF)]{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * {{gutenberg author| id=Basil+Hall+Chamberlain