books.google.com - Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous, but he left disappointed in the ability of the country...http://books.google.com/books/about/Private_Memoirs_of_the_Shoguns.html?id=BLzQA7cpr7wC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePrivate Memoirs of the Shoguns
