Letters From Japan a Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire

City The Home of the Shells A Bath in the Wine of Life Kings and Queens of the Deep Benten Sarnas Temple The Cave of the Dragon 1 GHAPTEE XXII A Sensational Journey Ikao and the Great Hills Kindly Showers A Walk up the Gorge Buddha among the Teacups The Colour of Ikao Pictures in the Village Street Fishing for Goldfish 21 CHAPTER XXIII From Ikao to Karuizawa The Silk Harvest A Rest at lizuka Climbing up the Pass A Sea of Peaks The Palace of Peace Our own Policeman 41 CHAPTEE XXIY In the Dawn of Time The Star Lovers and their Story The Pitiful History of Sho Kung 55 CHAPTEE XXV The Approach of the Storm At the Heart of the Typhoon A Funny Sight The Usui Toge The Story of a Hero, and a Heroine Yamatos Repentance In the Sweet Open Fields 73 viii CONTENTS CHAPTER XXVI PAGE The Charcoal-burner loses his Way A Mistake no Crime Invasion Pilgrims and their Ways Pilgrim Clubs An Enterprising Old Lady CHAPTER XXVII The Autumn Typhoon The Loss of the Ertogroul Legends of Fuji The Great Upheaval Chinese Tradition and the Sacred Mountain The Story of Jof uku The Lotus Peak . . .108 CHAPTER XXVIII The Opening of the Diet The Attack on the Russian Legation SosM at our own Gates Prince Komatsu and the Grand Cross of the Bath The Imperial Chrysanthemums . , . . 125 CHAPTER XXIX Nikko at last The Bridge of Beauty and the Bridge of Use In the Temple Courts The Story of lyeyasu His Friend, Will Adams, the Rochester Pilot A Piece of Imprisoned Sunshine-Maples and Waterfalls Chuzenji 148 CHAPTER XXX Another Christmas Tree Babies, European and Japanese Ideals of Home and School A Day at Meguro A Little Samurai Girl A Visitation of Influenza Miyanoshita as a Sanatorium Burning of the Houses of Parliament 108 CHAPTER XXXI A Reading Society Stories for the Japanese Ladies The Empresss Verses The Exaggeration of a Virtue Marriage, Eastern and Western Motherhood and Fatherhood Parental Ties New Laws of Inheritance 188 CONTENTS ix CHAPTER XXXII PAGE The Death of Prince San jo A State Funeral A Brave Daughter Ogitas Farewell The Shiba Temples A Feast of Beauty 210 CHAPTEE XXXIII In the Empresss own Garden A White Sail set Square to the Wind The Boys Festival, its Origin and Meaning Hideyoshi and his Battle Standard The Mongolian Invasion . . . .231 CHAPTER XXXIV The Attack on the Cesarevitch Loyal Women Tsuda Sanzo and his Life History A Nation in Mourning Courageous Judges A Samurai Maiden 253 CHAPTER XXXV The Cottage at Horiuchi The Dear Dead Gifts for the Spirits The Bottom of the Sea Fishing in the Empresss Sea Garden ...