Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
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Chapters (88)
- SKETCHES
- JAPANESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
- J.M.W. SILVER,
- LIEUTENANT ROYAL MARINES, LIGHT INFANTRY.
- Illustrated by Native Drawings,
- LONDON:
- 1867
- TO
- COLONEL SIR EDMUND SAUNDERSON PRIDEAUX,
- BART.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF PLATES.
- JAPANESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
- CHAPTER I.
- FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS.
- CHAPTER II.
- FIRES AND FIRE-BRIGADES
- CHAPTER III.
- DOMESTIC LIFE.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE TYCOON, DAIMIOS, AND ARISTOCRACY.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE COURT OF THE MIKADO.
- CHAPTER VI.
- The 'HARA KIRU.'
- CHAPTER VII.
- NATIONAL GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
- CHAPTER IX.
- SUPERSTITIONS AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES.
- CHAPTER X.
- ON THE TOKAIDO AND IN THE TEA-HOUSES.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE SPY SYSTEM—THE BATH-HOUSE.
- CHAPTER XII.
- LOVE OF FLOWERS.
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