EXPLORATION IN THE JAPANESE ALPS, 1891-1894 Weston 1895 1st edition (Weston, Walter.)

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EXPLORATION IN THE JAPANESE ALPS, 1891-1894 Weston 1895 1st edition
By Weston, Walter.
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[Paper read at the Royal Geographical Society, December 9, 1895. Extracted from the Geographical Journal.] PP 126-149, 9 photos in text, with a folding map of the Japanese Alps. Bound in quarter calf (spine only), with marbled boards, gold spine lettering. Weston presented numerous papers to the RGS about his climbs and explorations in previously unknown Japan, and this paper covers three years of his activities. Fine.

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Walter Weston in Japan

Weston went to Japan as a missionary of the Church of England's Church Missionary Society in 1888, working first at Kumamoto, then serving as chaplain in Kobe from 1889 to 1895. Between 1888 and 1915 he spent a total of fifteen years there, in three long periods.

He began mountain climbing while expressing a strong interest in Japanese landscapes, traditions, customs and culture. He published Mountaineering and Exploring in the Japanese Alps (1896). As a writer and lecturer he continued to introduce Japan to an overseas audience. He gave universal currency to the term Japanese Alps, though it was first used before he came to Japan. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Japanese Alpine Club in 1906, and became its first honorary member.

Weston's legacy remains, with the climbing season in the Japanese Northern Alps commencing with a festival named after him. He is almost unique as an individual westerner identified with the emergence of a new sport in Japan, the other such figure being Edward Bramwell Clarke.

By the end of Weston's life, some British climbers referred to him as �the father of mountaineering in Japan�. In 1937, Emperor Hirohito conferred on him the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasures (fourth class) and the Japanese Alpine Club erected a bronze tablet in his honour at Kamikochi in the Japanese Alps.

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