RARE! Renowned Japan Historian George Bailey Sansom Hand Signed 3X5 Card COA

  
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GBE KCMG (28 November 1883 - 8 March 1965) was a British. Diplomat and historian of pre-modern Japan, particularly noted for his historical. Surveys and his attention to Japanese society and culture.

Sansom was born in London, where. His father was a naval architect, but was. Educated in France and Germany, including the University of Giessen and. Passed an examination for the Diplomatic Service in. Sansom first arrived in Japan in 1904 and was attached to the.

British legation in Tokyo to learn the Japanese language. As private secretary to Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald the. Legation gained higher status by becoming an embassy, and Sansom was present. During the negotiations for the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in.

He remained in Japan for most of his diplomatic career, serving in. Consulates around Japan, where he also acquired proficiency in Japanese. Sansom began his literary career in 1911 with a translation of.

The Tsurezuregusa by Yoshida Kenko, a major text of the Kamakura period. Sansom was on leave in London in 1915, but. Was declared unfit for military service in the First World War.

He was assigned by the Foreign Office to. The War Office to undertake political espionage, and was sent.

He was married the following year. Sansom's own interest in Japanese history and culture.

To follow in the footsteps of his scholarly predecessors among British. Diplomats in Japan, such as Ernest Mason Satow, William George Aston and John Harington Gubbins. The position also gave Sansom access to many Japanese scholars as well as. Sansom was promoted to Commercial Secretary from 1923. 1926 Sansom was awarded the CMG Companion of the Order of St.

He was divorced in June 1927, but remarried. At the end of May the following year. Also in 1928, Sansom published An. He followed this in 1931 with Japan.

A Short Cultural History and in 1935 with a new edition of Sir Charles. Eliot's Japanese Buddhism, which had been left incomplete at the. Time of Eliot's death. In January 1930 Sansom was promoted to Commercial. Counsellor, in charge of improving trade relations. He visited the Philippines in 1932. In 1933 Sir Francis Oswald Lindley assigned. Him the task of negotiating a commercial treaty between British India and Japan.

Sansom was made a member of. And in 1935 he was promoted to Knight Commander within the Order of St. As relations between Britain and Japan continued to deteriorate.

Sansom's reputation as a Japanophile came to be perceived as a liability. The Ambassador, Sir Robert Clive, continued to. Rely on Sansom, his successor from 1937, Robert Craigie, was less. In 1935 Sansom took a leave of absence of six months. Which he spent at Columbia University in.

New York as a lecturer. While he was on leave in London he announced his. Retirement from the Diplomatic Service with effect from September 1940.

Agreed to return to Japan for one more mission before taking up a position. Waiting for him at Columbia University.