Japan

LETTER XXXIX

 

A Welcome Gift - Recent Changes - Volcanic Phenomena - Interesting Tufa Cones - Semi-strangulation - A Fall into a Bear-trap - The Shiraoi Ainos - Horsebreaking and Cruelty.

OLD MORORAN, VOLCANO BAY, YEZO, September 2.

LETTER III

 

Yedo and Tokiyo - The Yokohama Railroad - The Effect of Misfits - The Plain of Yedo - Personal Peculiarities - First Impressions of Tokiyo- -H. B. M.'s Legation - An English Home.

H.B.M.'s LEGATION, YEDO, May 24.

LETTER XV

 

A Hurry - The Tsugawa Packet-boat - Running the Rapids - Fantastic Scenery - The River-life - Vineyards - Drying Barley - Summer Silence - The Outskirts of Niigata - The Church Mission House.

NIIGATA, July 4.

LETTER XXVIII - (Continued)

 

Scanty Resources - Japanese Children - Children's Games - A Sagacious Example - A Kite Competition - Personal Privations.

IKARIGASEKI.

LETTER XXXIX - (Continued)

 

The Universal Language - The Yezo Corrals - A "Typhoon Rain" - Difficult Tracks - An Unenviable Ride - Drying Clothes - A Woman's Remorse.

Japan - An Attempt at Interpretation

 

by Lafcadio Hearn

"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back
to a time of rigid and pervading discipline" - WALTER BAGEHOT.

Kokoro - Japanese Inner Life Hints

 

by Lafcadio Hearn

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