Sir Ernest Satow's Private Letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: The Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918LARGE PAPERBACK. The distinguished British scholar diplomat Ernest Mason Satow (1843 1929) was one of the most prominent and pre eminent Japanologists in the Victorian era when the subject was newly created as Japan began to open its doors to foreigners from the mid 1850s. He shared this honour with Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850 1935) and the two addressees of the letters reproduced here by permission of the U. K. National Archives: co worker William