Japan and the Japanese illustrated . -shops of Yeddo. A judicious selection from the copious store of materialthus obtained formed the pictorial part of his work. The t5riginal French work has passed through two editions : the second, fromwhich the present translation has been made, adds a summary of events in Japandown to the year 1868 to the original narrative. During this interval the greatEevolutiou, which has so profoundly modified the political condition and social life inJapan, took place. A continuation of the narrative, bringing the Iecord down to thesummer of 1873, is furnished by th
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . -shops of Yeddo. A judicious selection from the copious store of materialthus obtained formed the pictorial part of his work. The t5riginal French work has passed through two editions : the second, fromwhich the present translation has been made, adds a summary of events in Japandown to the year 1868 to the original narrative. During this interval the greatEevolutiou, which has so profoundly modified the political condition and social life inJapan, took place. A continuation of the narrative, bringing the Iecord down to thesummer of 1873, is furnished by the editor of the English Edition. Such a work must naturally be of deep interest to the people of Great Britainand the United States of America, whose commercial relations with Japan out-weigh those of all other nations put together; and the interest will not be lessenetlliy the reflection that the strange lifeâart, manners, and costumesâso graphicallyportrayed, is undergoing a rapid change, and will soon l)e a thing of the TO THE CONTENTS. BOOK CHAPTER I. THE IX LAND SEA. V\r, AND (W TIIK KMPIUE (IF JAPAN.âSCENERY AND FEATlHES oF TIIF INLAND SEA. 1 CHAPTER ir. OUR THK TllF. âTHE TEA-HOUSES.âOFK ^rnHiS ... ... 13 CHAPTER HI. THE COUXTRY AXD TIIK PEOPLE. THE OF THE l!LE âSCENERY.âSlKINCTI DK. ( VATKiN. âlNl)rsTl:V. â ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... a CHAPTER IV. DOME S TIC LI E E. â¢lAPANESK âPEKSUNAI, APPEARANCE OF MEN AND HiHSEHoED LIVES, (TSTOMS, FURNITURE.âEDUCATION, LANGUAGE, SCHOOLS 34 IACIK viii CONTENTS. BOOK CHAPTEE I. THE ORIGIN OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE. COlirLICATIONS OF THE SUBJECT.âA SUPPOSED TARTAR IMMIGRATION.âPEACKFITI, .JAPANESE LANGUAGE.âPORTUGUESE ADVENTURERS.âCOSMOGONY 47 CHAPTER II. THE GENESIS OF JAPAN. THE BEGINNING.âTHE PRIMITIVE GODS.
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