BD. Edmund Blunden

183. Saitô, Takeshi. ‘Edmund Blunden’. Afterward to Poems on Japan (160), 1967.

A tracing of Blunden’s relation with Japan and his ‘sympathy for the Japanese people’. Suggests that during his two years and four months as cultural envoy for the United Kingdom Liaison Mission he ‘never once declin[ed] a request for either spoken or written contributions’, and notes the ‘huge audiences’ his lectures attracted. Partially incorporated in 185a.