List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of Locations Note on the Text PART I The Many Deaths of Mr Richardson Introduction 1 ‘Afloat and Settled in China’, 1853–1862 2 The British Empire and Bakumatsu Japan, 1862–1863 3 Anatomy of an ‘Outrage’, 1862–1864 4 Namamugi Remembered PART II The Letters of Charles Lenox Richardson, 1853–1862 Note on the Letters and Acknowledgements Index