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William Elliot Griffis
(1843–1928)

American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher

William Elliot Griffis

Works

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As editor

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As reviser

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Pamphlets

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  • “The New Japan Pictorial Primer” (1872)
  • “The New Japan Primer, Number 1” (1872)
  • “The New Japan Spelling Book” (1872)
  • “The Tokio Guide” (1874)
  • “The Yokohama Guide” (1874)
  • “The Rutgers Graduates in Japan” (1886) (external scan)
  • “The Growth and Fall of Feudalism” (1890)
  • “The Influence of the Netherlands in the Making of the English Commonwealth and the American Republic” (1891) (external scan)
  • “Massachusetts: A Typical American Commonwealth” (1893) (external scan)
  • “Sunny Memories of Three Pastorates” (1903) (external scan)
  • “In Remembrance of the Ceremonial Unveiling of the Pilgrim-Fathers’ Bronze Tablet” (1906)
  • “The New Hampshire Brigade in the Sullivan Campaign” (1910) (external scan)
  • “The Call of Jesus to Joy” (1912)
  • “What I Saw in Japan” (1913)
  • The Story of Belgium” (1915)
  • With George Warne Labaw and John Hart, “Rutgers College, Class of 1869, History to 1916” (external scan)
  • “The Dutch of the Netherlands in the Making of America” (1921)
  • Proverbs of Japan: A Little Picture of the Japanese Philosophy of Life as Mirrored in Their Proverbs” (1924)

Articles

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  • The Streets and Street-names of Yedo,” TASJ, 1, 20–29 (1872)
  • “Inside Japan,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 12, 174–181 (1873) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Fox-Myths,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 13, 57–64 (1874) (external scan)
  • “A Japanese Merchant at Home,” Overland Monthly, 12, 31–35 (1874) (external scan)
  • The Games and Sports of Japanese Children,” TASJ, 2, 140–158 (1874)
  • “A Call on a Bonze,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 13, 725–731 (1874) (external scan)
  • “The Mythical Zoology of Japan,” Overland Monthly, 13, 139–145 (1874) (external scan)
  • “New Year’s Eve in Tokio, 1872,” Overland Monthly, 13, 438–442 (1874) (external scan)
  • “A Japanese Marriage in High Life,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 15, 176–183 (1875) (external scan)
  • “The Recent Revolutions in Japan,” North American Review, 120, 281–315 (1875) (transcription project)
  • “A Daimio’s Life,” Lippincott’s Magazine, 16, 199–204 (1875) (external scan)
  • “In a Japanese Prison,” Overland Monthly, 15, 289–293 (1875) (external scan)
  • “Japan: Geographical and Social,” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 10, 77–92 (1878) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Rock-Crystal,” Harper’s Magazine, 59, 405–410 (1879) (external scan)
  • “Satsuma Faïence,” Art Amateur, 2(3), 53–54 (1880) (external scan)
  • “Old Hizen,” Art Amateur, 2(6), 122 (external scan); 3(1), 10 (1880) (external scan)
  • “The Corean Origin of Japanese Art,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 25, 224–229 (1882) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Art, Artists, and Artisans,” Scribner’s Magazine, 3(1), 108–121 (1888) (external scan)
  • “Coercion in Japan,” Nation, 46, 129–131 (1888) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Ivory Carvings,” Harper’s Magazine, 76, 709–714 (1888) (external scan)
  • “Our Treaties with Japan,” Andover Review, 9, 605–610 (1888) (external scan)
  • “Japanese Art Symbols,” Scribner’s Magazine, 5(1), 88–100 (1889) (external scan)
  • “Representative Government in Japan,” Forum, 7, 404–414 (1889) (external scan)
  • “Nature and People in Japan,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 39, 231–239 (1889) (external scan)
  • “The Constitution of Japan,” Chautauquan, 12(5), 591–596 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Political Progress in Japan,” Forum, 10, 701–707 (1891) (external scan)
  • “Relations between the United States and Japan,” Magazine of American History, 27(6), 449–454 (1892) (external scan)
  • “The Literary Phase of the Eastern War,” Literary World, 25, 264–265 (1894) (external scan)
  • “China and Japan at War in Corea,” Chautauquan, 20(1), 70–74 (1894) (external scan)
  • “American Relations with the Far East,” New England Magazine, New Series, 11(3), 257–272 (1894) (external scan)
  • “Japan as an Industrial Power,” Chautauquan, 24(2), 201–205 (1896) (external scan)
  • “Japanese National Holidays,” Independent, 49, 837–838 (1897) (external scan)
  • “Was John Alden an Irishman?” Independent, 49, 1645–1646 (1897) (external scan)
  • “Bottles and Battle-Ships,” Independent, 50, 402 (1898) (external scan)
  • The Folk-Lore of Japan” (pp. 294–303), in The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 (1898)
  • “Cromwell: The Hero of the Commonwealth,” Independent, 51, 1142–1144 (1899) (external scan)
  • “The Century’s Changes in China and Japan” (pp. 99–111), in The 19th Century: A Review of Progress (1901) (external scan)
  • “The August Elections in Japan,” Independent, 54, 2295–2300 (1902) (external scan)
  • “The Development of Political Parties in Japan,” North American Review, 175, 676–690 (1902) (external scan)
  • “The National Exposition in Japan,” Outlook, 74, 801–807 (1903) (external scan)
  • “Our War with One Gun,” New England Magazine, New Series, 28(6), 662–678 (1903) (external scan)
  • Introduction to Nitobe Inazō, Bushido: The Soul of Japan (10th ed. 1905 and later editions)
  • “The Elder Statesmen of Japan: The Power behind the Portsmouth Treaty,” North American Review, 182, 215–227 (1906) (external scan)
  • “Rembrandt: Interpreter of the Twentieth Century,” North American Review, 183, 98–109 (1906) (external scan)
  • Introduction to Ernest Wilson Clement (ed.), Hildreth’s “Japan as it Was and Is” (1907)
  • Preface to Matilda Chaplin Ayrton, Child-life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories (1909)
  • The Statesmanship of Ito,” North American Review, 191, 114–127 (1910) (external scan)
  • “Japan’s Absorption of Korea,” North American Review, 192, 516–526 (1910) (external scan)
  • “Mutsuhito the Great,” North American Review, 196, 328–338 (1912) (external scan)
  • “Are the Japanese Mongolian?” North American Review, 197, 721–733 (1913) (external scan)
  • “The Phi Beta Kappa Key in Japan,” Phi Beta Kappa Key, 2(4), 165–169 (1914) (external scan)
  • “Our Honor and Shame with Japan,” North American Review, 200, 566–575 (1914) (external scan)
    • See also a response, “‘Our Honor without Shame with Japan,’” North American Review, 200, 952–954 (1914) (external scan)
  • “Woman’s Progress in Japan,” Missionary Review of the World, 38(7), 497–505 (1915) (external scan)
  • “The Statesmanship of Yuan Shi Kai,” North American Review, 204, 70–74 (1916) (external scan)
  • “Okuma and the New Era in Japan,” North American Review, 204, 681–690 (1916) (external scan)
  • “Japan in the World War,” North American Review, 208, 722–728 (1918) (external scan)
  • “What the Pilgrim Fathers Accomplished,” North American Review, 213, 44–51 (1921) (external scan)
  • “Japan’s Civilian Premiers,” North American Review, 215, 32–37 (1922) (external scan)
  • “The Empire of the Risen Sun,” National Geographic Magazine, 44(4), 415–443 (1923) (external scan)
  • “Japan’s Progress in Rebuilding an Empire,” Current History, 27(5), 681–686 (1928) (external scan)

Reviews

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  • P. J. Blok, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Volk, American Historical Review, 2(1), 122–125 (1896) (external scan)
  • George Granville Bradley, Lectures on Ecclesiastes, American Journal of Theology, 3(1), 161 (1899) (external scan)
  • Robert E. Speer, Missions and Politics in Asia, American Journal of Theology, 3(4), 841–842 (1899) (external scan)
  • Edgar C. S. Gibson, The Book of Job, American Journal of Theology, 4(3), 587–588 (1900) (external scan)
  • Frederick W. Holls, The Peace Conference at the Hague, and Its Bearings on International Law and Policy, and Thomas Willing Balch, Éméric Crucé, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 17, 116–119 (1901) (external scan)
  • Azel Ames, The May-Flower and Her Log, July 15, 1620–May 6, 1621 American Historical Review, 7(2), 367–369 (1902) (external scan)
  • Captain F. Brinkley, Japan and China, American Historical Review, 8(4), 795–797 (1903) (external scan)
  • Sidney L. Gulick, Evolution of the Japanese, Social and Psychic, American Historical Review, 10(1), 138–139 (1904) (external scan)
  • Henry Martyn Dexter and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims, American Historical Review, 11(3), 654–656 (1906) (external scan)
  • P. J. Blok, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Volk, American Historical Review, 12(4), 890–892 (1907) (external scan)
  • Petrus Johannes Blok, History of the People of the Netherlands, Part IV, Frederick Henry, John De Witt, William III, American Historical Review, 13(3), 573–574 (1908) (external scan)
  • William Edmund Lampe, The Japanese Social Organization, Economic Bulletin, 3(4), 432–433 (1910) (external scan)
  • Helen C. Gunsaulus, Japanese Sword-Mounts, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 45, 88–91 (1925) (external scan)
  • Karl Haushofer, Japan und die Japaner, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 46, 81–82 (1926) (external scan)

Works about Griffis

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1931.


This author died in 1928, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 97 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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