Ernest Mason Satow
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Sir Ernest Mason Satow,, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan than in Britain or the other countries in which he served, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke . He was a key figure in late 19th-century Anglo-Japanese relations.
The young Ernest Mason Satow. Photograph taken in Paris, December 1869.
Portrait in Vanity Fair by Leslie Ward, 1903
The British Legation Yamate, Yokohama, 1865 painting
The grave of Sir Ernest Mason Satow in the churchyard of Ottery St Mary
Japan–United Kingdom relations
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Japan–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister of Japan and the United Kingdom, Fumio Kishida and Rishi Sunak (respectively) for a bilateral meeting at the Tower of London on 11 January 2023
The 1613 letter of King James I remitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu (preserved in the Tokyo University archives)
The Blue Bower (1865) sitter poses with a Koto.
Japanese Village in Knightsbridge, 1886