The Mikado's Empire: A History of Japan from the Age of Gods to the Meiji Era (660 BC - AD 1872) (Stone Bridge Classics)

In its day the most popular book on the then-mysterious nation of Japan, this volume covers the history and culture of Japan from the earliest times to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

William Elliot Griffis (1843 1928) was an educator and writer and a respected authority on Japanese culture.