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Chamberlain (BASIL HALL an English Japanese)

BASIL HALL, an English Japanese scholar; born Southsea, Oct. 18, 1850. He devoted his life to the study of Japanese customs and literature and was professor of Japanese and philology at the Imperial University of Tokio. Among his publications were "The Classical Poetry of the Japanese" (1880); "Translation of the Kojiki" (1883); "A Romanized Japanese Reader" (1886); "Language, Mythology and Geographical Nomenclature of Japan in the Light of Aino Studies" (1887); "Luchuan Grammar" (1895); "Things Japanese" (1890); "Japanese Poetry" (1910).