notes The only known likeness of Aston is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. A 1911 crayon drawing of Aston by Minnie Agnes Cohen only suggests what he might have looked like as a younger man. Very little is known about Aston's personal life because he left no letters or diaries. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about William George Aston, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 90+ works in 200+ publications in 4 languages and 3,000+ library holdings. 1869 — A Short Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language 1872 — A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language, with a short chrestomathy 1877 — A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language 1888 — A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language 1889 — Early Japanese history 1896 — Nihongi; Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697 1899 — A History of Japanese Literature (available at Wikisource) 1899 — Toriwi--its derivation 1902 — Littérature japonaise 1905 — Shinto, the Way of the Gods. 1907 — Shinto, the Ancient Religion of Japan Articles 1879 — "H.M.S. Phaeton at Nagasaki," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 7, pp. 323–336. See also Anglo-Japanese relations British Japan Consular Service List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Korea Notes References Ruxton, Ian. (2008). Sir Ernest Satow's private letters to W.G. Aston and F.V. Dickins: the Correspondence of a Pioneer Japanologist from 1870 to 1918. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press. ; External links A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language (1888) By W.G. Aston at Archive.org The History of Japanese Literature by W.G. Aston (Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1899) British expatriates in Japan British Japanologists Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Japanese–English translators People of Meiji-period Japan British philologists 1841 births 1911 deaths Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Korea 20th-century translators 19th-century translators Linguists of Japanese Linguists of Korean