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  1. William Elliot Griffis (September 17, 1843 – February 5, 1928) was an American orientalist, Congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. [1] Early life. Griffis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader.

  2. 26 de ene. de 2024 · William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) worked for nearly six decades to cultivate American respect for Japan. A widely published and colorful writer, he praised not only its traditions but also its efforts to develop into a modern nation that would convince the United States to treat it as a sovereign equal.

  3. 24 de mar. de 2023 · The life-sized Griffis, struggling with debt repayment, loneliness, and sexuality as a single man in a foreign country, that emerges from Edward R. Beauchamp’s painstaking study on Griffis, An American Teacher in Early Meiji Japan (1976), does not appear at all in The Mikado’s Empire.

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  4. 30 de ene. de 2020 · William Elliot Griffis. January 30, 2020 | By Caitlin A. Moy | Oyatoi, People. William Elliot Griffis was born in 1843 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Civil War, Griffis attended Rutgers in 1865. There, in the subjects of English and Latin, he tutored Taro Kusakabe, a Japanese student from Echizen (now Fukui) who ...

  5. Over a fifty-year period spanning the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, William Elliot Griffis was well known as a popular author and lecturer, a "Japan hand" who was perhaps the foremost American expert on Japan and the Far East and on American relations with East Asia.

  6. William Elliot Griffis Collection. The papers of William Elliot Griffis, a unique scholarly resource, document the experience of Westerners in Japan, the roots of Japanese-American relations, and the special friendship between Japan and Rutgers during the Meiji period (1868-1912).

  7. The William Elliot Griffis Collection documents the life, career, and connections of the man who has been described as “the most important interpreter of Japan to the West before World War I.” William Elliot Griffis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1843 and attended Rutgers College from 1865 to 1869.