Ox Against the Storm.
A biography of Tanaka Shozo: Japan's conservationist pioneer. (1841-1913).
Kent. Norbury. 1977. Stock ID #142384 "[Kenneth Strong] uses contemporary sources and his subject's personal diaries to present an overall account of the way an intricate network of oligarchic and industrial interests bound together by complex personal relationships dominated Japan's first democratic parliaments, and of the ferment in which Japanese society as a whole found itself in the last decade of the nineteenth century." Taken from blurb. When referring to this item please quote stockid 142384.
Black and white illustrations, xviii + 231pp, bibliography, signature of Japanese historian Dr.Richard Mason on front free endpaper, dustjacket minor rubbing, a very good copy.
Price: $35.00 AU