Basil Hall Chamberlain (October 18, 1850 ā February 15, 1935) was a professor of Japanese at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. The most famous works of Basil Hall Chamberlain are translation of the āKojikiā (1882), āA Handbook of Colloquial Japaneseā (1888), āThings Japaneseā (1890), and āA Practical Guide to the Study of Japanese Writingā (1905).
āThe Invention of a New Religionā is a non-fiction work by Basil Hall Chamberlain written and published in 1912. It was incorporated into āThings Japaneseā from 1927. āThings Japaneseā was a popular one volume informal discussion of Japanese written in 1890. Let's read and find out the Chamberlain's reflections about the new religion in Japan.