On the Social Background of River and Harbour Administration in the dawn of Meiji Japan, described by Dutch civil engineer J. de Rijke

Letters by J. de Rijke, written to Ir. G. A. Escher in Holland

Abstract

This paper is one of some papers which will be published in this year as a succession of last year's published, “Correspondens among Dutch civil engineers in early days Meiji Japan.”
This paper describes on the social background of river and harbour administration of Japanese Goverment and also provides some new historical facts, based on letters of de Rijke in 1879 to 1889.