Basil Hall Chamberlain

• Born: 1850
• Died: 1935

Basil Hall Chamberlain was a British scholar who lived in Japan for over thirty years, beginning in 1873.

He produced a number of works about Japan, which remain some of the most oft-cited late 19th century English sources on Japan today, including his A Handbook for Travelers in Japan (1893).

References

• Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan, Oxford University Press (2013), 61.