Author:Frederick Victor Dickins

Frederick Victor Dickins
(1838–1915)

Works

• “Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan.” In The Life of Sir Harry Parkes, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. (1894) (vol. II) (external scan)
• Primitive and Mediaeval Japanese Texts (1906) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Articles

• With Ernest Satow: “Notes of a Visit to Hachijô in 1878.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, VI(III), pp. 435–489 (1878).
• “Vegetation of Fusi, Japan.” The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 16, p. 179 (1878).
• “Pre-Historic Man in Japan.” Nature, 21, p. 350 (Feb. 12, 1880).
• "The Ômori Shell-Heaps" Nature 21:610-611 (Apr 1880).
• “The ‘Kana’ Transliteration System.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, VIII[(II)], pp. 242–266 (1880).
• Translated from Carlo Puini: “The Seven Gods of Happiness.” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, VIII[(IV)], pp. 427–461 (1880).
• “The Story of Shiūten Dôji.” The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 17[New Series](1), pp. 1–28 (1885).
• "Pictorial Arts of Japan" Nature 33:386 (Feb 1886).
• "Pictorial Arts of Japan" Nature 33:418 (Mar 1886).
• “The Story of the Old Bamboo-Hewer. (Taketori no Okina no Monogatari.)” The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 19[New Series](1), pp. 1–58 (1887).
• "Aino Hairiness and the Urvolk of Japan" Nature 35:534 (Apr 1887).
• “Are the Ainos the Aborigines of Japan?” The Academy, 32(796), pp. 91–92 (Aug. 6, 1887).
• “The Progress of Botany in Japan.” The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 25, pp. 147–148 (1887).
• “Ainu Fairy Tales.” The Academy, 33(824), p. 116 (Feb. 18, 1888).
• "Acquired Characters and Congenital Variation" Nature 41:316 (Feb 1890).
• Remarks with Walter Dening’s “Japanese Modern Literature.” In Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists (1893, vol. II, pp. 642–667).
• “A Journal Kept in Karafuto.” Transactions and Proceedings of The Japan Society, London, IV(I), pp. 20–48 (April 1898 [issue], 1900 [volume]).
• “The Origins of the Japanese State.” The English Historical Review, XIV(LIV), pp. 209–234 (April 1899).
• Translated from Tokutaro Ito: “A Short Memoir of Ito Keisuké, Rigaku Hakushi (Doctor of Philosophy).” Annals of Botany, 14, pp. 401–410 (1900).
• With Minakata Kumagusu: “A Japanese Thoreau of the Twelfth Century.” The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1905, pp. 237–264 (1905).
• “The Mangwa of Hokusai.” Transactions and Proceedings of The Japan Society, London, VI(III), pp. 276–305 (January 1906).

Translations

• Hyaku-Nin-Isshu (1892, reprint of 1866 original) (external scan)
• Chiushingura; or, The Loyal League
  • First Edition (1875) (external scan)
  • New Edition (1880) (start transcription)
• The Old Bamboo-Hewer’s Story (1888) (external scan)