When I departed from Siam in 1887 I laid the unfinished manuscript aside, and did not look at it again until September 1919, when some of my younger relations, to whom I had shown it, suggested that it ought to be completed. This second portion is largely a transcript of my journals, supplemented from papers drawn up by me which were included in the Confidential Print of the time and by letters to my chief Sir Harry Parkes which have been published elsewhere. Letters to my mother have furnished some particulars that were omitted from the diaries. Part of the volume may read like a repetition of a few pages from my friend the late Lord Redesdale's "Memories," for when he was engaged on that work he borrowed some of my journals of the time we had spent together in Japan. But I have not referred to his volumes while writing my own. ERNEST SATOW. OTTERY ST MARY, _January 1921_. * * * * * _Note._--In pronouncing Japanese words the consonants are to be taken as in English, the vowels more or less as in Italian. _G_, except at the beginning of a word, when it is hard, represents _ng_. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE APPOINTMENT AS STUDENT INTERPRETER AT YEDO 17 CHAPTER II YOKOHAMA SOCIETY, OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL 22 CHAPTER III POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN JAPAN 33 CHAPTER IV TREATIES--ANTI-FOREIGN SPIRIT--MURDER OF FOREIGNERS 42 CHAPTER V RICHARDSON'S MURDER--JAPANESE STUDIES 50 CHAPTER VI OFFICIAL VISIT TO YEDO 61 CHAPTER VII DEMANDS FOR REPARATION--JAPANESE PROPOSALS TO CLOSE THE PORTS--PAYMENT OF THE INDEMNITY 72 CHAPTER VIII BOMBARDMENT OF KAGOSHIMA 84 CHAPTER IX SHIMONOSEKI: PRELIMINARY MEASURES 95 CHAPTER X SHIMONOSEKI--NAVAL OPERATIONS 102 CHAPTER XI SHIMONOSEKI--PEACE CONCLUDED WITH CHÔSHIÛ 116 CHAPTER XII THE MURDER OF BIRD AND BALDWIN 134 CHAPTER XIII RATIFICATION OF THE TREATIES BY THE MIKADO 141 CHAPTER XIV GREAT FIRE AT YOKOHAMA 156