Ernest Satow facts for kids

Young Satow

Ernest Mason Satow GCMG PC (30 June 1843 - 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.

Career

Along with William George Aston and Basil Hall Chamberlain, Satow was one of three major British Japanologists during the 19th century.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Ernest Mason Satow, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 200+ works in 300+ publications in 9 languages and 4,000+library holdings.

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• A Guide to Diplomatic Practice, 1917
• A Diplomat in Japan, 1921
• The Family Chronicle of the English Satows, 1925

Honours

• Order of St Michael and St George, Commander (CMG), 1885
• Order of St Michael and St George, Knight Commander (KCMG)
• Order of St Michael and St George, Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)
• Privy Council of the United Kingdom, 1906

Japanese calligraphy by Satow. The kanji read (from right to left) "敬和" (Kei-Wa), literally "Respect and harmony".

Images for kids

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  Satow caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1903

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  The British Legation Yamate, Yokohama, 1865 painting

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  Poem by the Tang poet Wang Bo 王勃 (650–676) in Satow's calligraphy (British Library Or. 16054)

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  The grave of Sir Ernest Mason Satow in the churchyard of Ottery St Mary

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  The Japanese wife of Ernest Mason Satow, Takeda Kane, 1870

See also

In Spanish: Ernest Mason Satow para niños