Andrew Cobbing

Andrew Cobbing is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on Japan's cultural encounters with the West in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly through overseas travels recorded in samurai diaries. He has published several articles and books, including The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Japan's Early Encounters with the Far West (2000) and together with Itami Masatar , Jeanie Eadie's Samurai: The Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur...See more

Andrew Cobbing is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on Japan's cultural encounters with the West in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly through overseas travels recorded in samurai diaries. He has published several articles and books, including The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Japan's Early Encounters with the Far West (2000) and together with Itami Masatar , Jeanie Eadie's Samurai: The Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur and Agricultural Pioneer (2006). He has also translated Volume 3 of Kume Kunitake's official account of the Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873. His most recent book is Kyushu: Gateway to Japan: A Concise History (2009). See less