Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xi

Map of Locations

pp xii-xii

Note on the Text

pp xiii-xiv

PART I - The Many Deaths of Mr Richardson

pp 1-2

Introduction

pp 3-10

1 - ‘Afloat and Settled in China’, 1853–1862

pp 11-27

2 - The British Empire and Bakumatsu Japan, 1862–1863

pp 28-47

3 - Anatomy of an ‘Outrage’, 1862–1864

pp 48-88

4 - Namamugi Remembered

pp 89-116

PART II - The Letters of Charles Lenox Richardson, 1853–1862

pp 117-118

Note on the Letters and Acknowledgements

pp 119-240

Index

pp 241-246