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  _On the River of Heaven a sound of plashing can be distinctly heard: is it the sound of the rippling made by Hikoboshi quickly rowing his boat


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id: 7936
title: Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
author: Finnemore, John
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  When the Japanese decided to come out and take their place among the great When Japanese boys and girls go to school, they make very low bows to their My little Japanese servant-boy was in the room, and as I went At the age of three the Japanese boy is taken to the temple to give thanks The word "obedience" has a large part in the life of a Japanese boy; it But at the present moment, for great sections of Japanese society, the old A house among the poorer sort of Japanese consists of one large room in the there is in a Japanese house for servants to do. Tea-houses and temples run together very easily in the Japanese mind, for And its tea-houses and temples, and the smiling rickshaw-man." A Japanese lives in a house largely built of Festival is the great Japanese holiday of the year.


id: 32086
title: Japan: A Record in Colour
author: Menpes, Dorothy
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  In Japan the scenic work of a play is handled by one man alone, and that point of view of a picture, it is wrong, for in a work of art the frame possible, a little flower placed in a pot--bending it this way and that Japanese painters have a great admiration for Michael Angelo''s work, and Japanese artists study a great deal from life, and in order to draw a artist saw his picture complete in his mind, he began with the little characteristic of Japanese pictures, an artist must first fill his brush A bough or a tree in a Japanese room looks exactly like a real as compared with the work of a great Japanese master in the art of Japan at the present time this little man is known as Mr. Inchie. Little Inchie and I, as I have said, soon became great friends.


id: 15320
title: The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories
author: Hearn, Lafcadio
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  Of old it was said: ''The River of Heaven is the Ghost of There can be little doubt that the Japanese festival called rain that happens to fall on Tanabata night is called _Namida no Amé_, selection of ancient Japanese poems, treating of the Tanabata legend. Japanese life and thought twelve hundred years ago. [Footnote 8: _Hisakata-no_ is a "pillow-word" used by the old poets in [Footnote 12: That is to say, "wife." In archaic Japanese the word (_zuma_), in ancient Japanese, signified either wife or husband; and [Footnote 17: In ancient Japanese the word _séko_ signified either [_The love-longing of one whole year having ended to-night, [Footnote 21: At different times, in the history of Japanese female [Footnote 57: The Japanese word for granite is _mikagé_; and there is To old Japanese fancy the falling of these heavy red flowers was like [Footnote 62: Two Japanese words are written, in _kana_, as "mé"--one


id: 62121
title: John L. Stoddard''s Lectures, Vol. 03 (of 10) Japan I, Japan II, China
author: Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)
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  appear, the traveler soon comes to like these little vehicles. [Illustration: A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] The Japanese are usually small their women seem like girls; their [Illustration: A JAPANESE BRIDGE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE LADY EN ROUTE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE DOCTOR OF THE OLD STYLE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE LADY.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE BEAUTY.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE SHOP.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE FAMILY MOVING.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE AT PRAYER.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE BED.] [Illustration: JAPANESE TEA-HOUSE.] [Illustration: TWO MODES OF TRAVEL IN JAPAN.] [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] [Illustration: INTERIOR OF A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] The streets in Kioto, like those of most Japanese cities, are usually [Illustration: A HONG-KONG STREET--IN THE CHINESE QUARTER.] [Illustration: AN OLD CHINESE FORT, CANTON RIVER.] [Illustration: CHINESE BOATS, CANTON.] [Illustration: HALL IN A CHINESE HOUSE.] once said to me: "The more you see of the Japanese the less you will like [Illustration: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.]


id: 56985
author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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  At breakfast the day before the time fixed for Frank''s departure, Mr. Bassett told his son that he must make the most of his journey, enjoy it "She''s a nice girl," said Fred to the Doctor as they made their way to after day, and on a great ocean like the Pacific there is little to Fred said the best thing to prevent a horse running away was to sell him and looked at a great variety of Japanese goods, but followed the advice "We think we want to write home now, Doctor," said Frank, "and wish to great cities of Japan, but they are far less frequent than in New York "I know what that is," said Fred, who came along at the moment Frank "That is one point," said Frank, "in which I think the Japanese have [Illustration: A JAPANESE WAR-JUNK OF THE OLDEN TIME.]

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  The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First] Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China


id: 57861
title: Mysterious Japan
author: Street, Julian
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  The satisfying thing about Japan is that it always looks exactly like little Japanese house with its few feet of garden which appeals Like most large foreign-style buildings in Japan, it is architecturally in Japan than that of a Japanese woman dressed in other than the native intractable, like American women who, according to the Japanese idea, by the fact that it is served by a lovely little Japanese hand] of Japanese men and women who have lived for years in the United States, Japanese, and for a number of years did not even meet Americans who came The Japanese business man''s custom of taking a day off whenever it in kind, saying that I thought they also looked like Japanese, and very geisha in Japan the average Japanese husband will have them at his Within, the streets look much like other Japanese Japanese Parliament met in the year following, 1890, when Japan adopted


id: 7237
title: Roving East and Roving West
author: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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  stay, new supplies of fire-wood outside the great Hindu burning ground kindly old man who pressed handfuls of little white nuts upon us and who crossing a noble Mogul bridge, we should come to a little walled city, When on my way home I found myself in an American picture gallery, either in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston or New York, I lingered longest American clubs I have watched quite old friends and associates whose necessary to visit America in order to know what Americans are like Americans in America and in England. When it comes to the choice of news, one cannot believe that American Not all the good country houses, big and little, are, however, old. same feeling in the other great American cities. English city, and yet both in San Francisco and New York I dined in I reached New York I seemed to be the only man in America who carried


id: 8133
title: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series
author: Hearn, Lafcadio
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  little, of the folk-lore of a Japanese garden; and if you want to know little hand, said, ''Come,'' and the tree followed him, gliding along the Little Japanese girls who play with insects or small animals Gods.'' On this is usually placed a small Shinto shrine (miya) containing thread or coloured paper twine, dainty bits of deliciously tinted crapesilk, delicate steel springs, and curious little basket-shaped things The hair of little girls from seven to eight years old is in rule the Japanese student shows little originality in the line of curious light upon the simple-hearted ways of Japanese life and thought beautiful old Japanese traditions, like the legend of the fisher that tree bear marks like the marks of little teeth; for in Japanese But it came to pass a little time ago, that certain old men of Matsue with another little boy; and that on the way he saw a great white Face


id: 8130
title: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
author: Hearn, Lafcadio
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  another and lower stand supporting a temple bell shaped like a great To the right of the temple is a little shrine, filling the air with temples, a monstrous shape appears, like a double-faced head freshly cut memory of days passed in Japanese gardens and temples and tea-houses, to the blue peaked roof of a little temple high-perched on the green gods bear in their hands, a small Japanese doll, and a little Shinto shrine, with a torii before it like a great ideograph shaped in like the straw roofs of those little wayside temples curiously enough slide open my little Japanese paper window to look out upon the morning The great courts of Buddhist temples are places of rare interest for became that place where stands the temple of the great god at whose This little shrine, which I see now for the first time (Kitzuki temple


id: 31043
title: Letters from China and Japan
author: Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman
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  Nice old blue Canton plates and other things Japanese. Kabuki, where we sit on the floor and see real old Japanese acting, We liked the old Japanese theater better than the said it was the only place in Tokyo where Japanese men and women really met in a free sociable way, and the president said that when Japanese after dinner, and, like several of the little girls of the new to-day another young lady called, and said she wanted to go back to After a little I said: "I did not know the Emperor went to The Geisha girls are all the way from eleven years old to something like little things went back and danced for more men. has in Japan, Japanese officered Chinese, and her possession of Maybe you would like to know a little about how we look this morning and


id: 43541
author: Satow, Ernest Mason
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  day, the foreign consuls continued to date their official reports from four times what he received from the Foreign Office, and he went where the Tycoon''s government and the foreign ministers at Yedo." Itô came on board one day with a couple of men who, he said, were that the foreign ministers had visited the Tycoon at Ozaka all was to be Yedo Foreign Department, who had come from Yokohama with Sir Harry, and these two places, and so content foreigners, while the Japanese went on Next day the two great men came again, and the Nagasaki murders were the called next day on the foreign representatives they came to us last of Foreign Representatives had addressed Notes to the Japanese Government The foreign representatives left Kiôto the following day. Japanese ministers for Foreign Affairs on the other. Next day I went up to Yedo on board a Japanese steamer belonging to the

title:
  A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period


id: 54815
title: Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama
author: Lewis, Henry Harrison
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  Nattie and Grant, seeing their new friend to the door. Grant and Nattie left ten minutes before the end for the purpose of Before either Grant or Mori could offer an objection, Nattie darted from to do, then he approached a clerk, and asked him to announce to Mr. Black that Grant Manning wished to see him on important business. When Nattie left his brother and Mori in the office of Black & Company, Before either Nattie or Mori could reply, the front door was thrown Both Nattie and Mori instinctively left the conversation to Grant. hour Nattie left a tea house on his way to the place of destination. Nattie Manning, and from the other--Ralph Black! "Mori, you are a friend indeed," said Nattie, when the young Japanese sea, Grant and Nattie and Mori finally scrambled to their feet and words that will put an end for all time to Grant and Nattie and Mori.


