Thomas Blake Glover
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Thomas Blake Glover was an Anglo-Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji-period Japan.
Thomas Blake Glover portrait suit
Glover (holding grandson) and family, c. 1900
Glover House known as Ipponmatsu (Single Pine Tree) from a drawing of 1863. The tree was chopped down in the early 1900s.
Today's Glover-Garden, Nagasaki
Gai-Jin
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Gai-Jin is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga, although it was the last to be published. Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chroni
Thomas Blake Glover
…a courtesan who, unknown to him, has a son for which he has longed. Glover is also the basis for the character Jamie McFay in the James Clavell novel Gai-Jin, set in the early 1860s. In addition, Glover appeared as an enemy in the Japanese videogame Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! and is voiced by Jeff Gedert. Harry…
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