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Basil Hall Chamberlain was one of the first literary collaborators of Hasegawa. Born in England and arriving to Japan in 1873, he lived and worked there for 38 years before spending the rest of his life in Geneva on his doctors orders. Unlike many foreigners, he became fluent in Japanese and wrote the first Japanese grammar textbook, working closely with the Japanese government and academic circles. He held various jobs in Japan, most notably as a Professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1886 at the beginning of his tenure, he connected with Hasegawa to publish a series of three Ainu fairy-tales and numbers 8, 9, 13, and 15 of the Japanese Fairy Tale series. He translated a total of seven works for Hasegawa and connected him with many English-speaking foreigners in Japan, such as Mrs. T. H. [Kate] James and Lafcadio Hearn. Chamberlain dedicated the bulk of his career to studying and publishing on Japanese literature, culture, and life. He contributed to several guide-books marketed towards Western tourists visiting Japan, and would mention Hasegawa\u2019s series when appropriate, indicating the positive business relationship they maintained during their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”–et_global_heading_font||||||||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_filterable_portfolio fullwidth=”off” posts_number=”20″ include_categories=”10″ _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” title_font=”|600|||||||” title_font_size=”15px” hover_enabled=”0″ db_project_order=”by_id” db_project_order_ids=”212, 1406, 214, 1438, 222, 226″ global_colors_info=”{}” hover_icon=”||fa||900″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_filterable_portfolio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Basil Hall Chamberlain was one of the first literary collaborators of Hasegawa. Born in England and arriving to Japan in 1873, he lived and worked there for 38 years before spending the rest of his life in Geneva on his doctors orders. Unlike many foreigners, he became fluent in Japanese and wrote the first Japanese […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2001,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1758\/revisions\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}List of Translated Works<\/h4>\n