Basil Hall Chamberlain

(1850-1935)

British academic

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Basil Hall Chamberlain (18 October 1850 – 15 February 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. (Others included Ernest Satow and W. G. Aston.) He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English. He is perhaps best remembered for his informal and popular one-volume encyclopedia Things Japanese, which first appeared in 1890 and which he revised several times thereafter. His interests were diverse, and his works include an anthology of poetry in French.

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Born	18 October 1850 Southsea, England
Died	15 February 1935 (aged 84) Geneva, Switzerland
Zodiac	Libra
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Lafcadio Hearn · Friend · 1850-1904 · Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West edit info

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