Ernest Mason Satow
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Sir Ernest Mason Satow, was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as Satō Ainosuke, than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as
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
Hisayoshi Takeda
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Hisayoshi Takeda was a Japanese botanist whose father was the British diplomat Sir Ernest Satow. He was a founder of the Japanese Natural History Society, and is known for his campaign to preserve the
Ernest Mason Satow
…TB in London in 1900, and was advised to go and live in the United States, where he died some time before his father. (1925-29)." Satow's second son, Takeda Hisayoshi, became a noted botanist, founder of the Japan Natural History Society and from 1948 to 1951 was President of the Japan Alpine Club. He studied at the…
Hisayoshi Takeda