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appearance, and offer the foreigner an endless variety of remark- 

 able and instructive pictures from the life of the people. The 

 European part of the town, on the other hand, is built with 

 stately houses, some of which are situated on the street that runs 

 along the shore. Here, among others, are to be found splendid 

 European hotels, European clubs, counting-houses, shops, &c. 



Not far from Kobe, and having railway communication wdth 

 it, is Osaka, the largest manufacturing town of Japan, famed for 

 its theatres and its dancing-girls. Unfortunately I had not time 

 to visit it, for I started f(n' the old capital, Kioto, a few hours 

 after the Vega anchored, and after I had waited on the governor 

 in order to procure the passport that is still required for travel- 

 ling in the interior. He received me, thanks to a letter ot 

 introduction I had with me from one of the ministers at Tokio, 

 in an exceedingly agreeable way. His reception-room was part 

 of a large European stone house, the vestibule of which was 

 tastefully fitted up in Eurojiean style with a Brussels carpet 

 gay with variegated colours. At our visit we were offered 

 Japanese tea, as is customary everywhere in Japan, both in the 

 palace of the Emperor and the cabin of the poor jDeasant, The 

 Governor was, as all the higher officials in Japan noAV are, 

 dressed like a European of distinction, but he could not speak 



distributed among the various branches uf knowledge in tlic followir.g 

 way : 



Number 

 of Works. 



History 176 



On Buddhism and Education 161 



On Shintoism ... ... ••• ■■• ■ • ■•. .• o8 



On Cln-istiam'ty (printed ill 171-j) 1 



Manners and Customs S3 



Tlie Drama 13 



Laws ... ... ... ■-• ••• ••• ••. ••• 5 



Politics, Political argumentative writings, partly new and 



private! 3^ printed against the recent statues ... ... 24 



Poetry and Prose fiction ... ... ... ... ... 137 



Heraldry, Antiijuities, Ceremonies 27 



The Art of War and tlie Use of Weapons 41 



Chess 1 



Coining ... ... ... ••. • ••• ••• ■•• 4 



Dictionaries, Grammars ... ... ... ... ... 18 



Geography, Maps 76 



Natural History ... .. ... ■. ••• ... ... 68 



The Science of Medicine lii 



Arithmetic, Astronomy, Astroio'jy 39 



Handicrafts, Agriculture 43 



Notebooks ... ... ... ••• ••• ••■ ••• '3 



The art of making bouquets (Horticuliurc ■;) 16 



Bibliograi^hy " 9 



Various ... ... ... ■■• ••• ■•• ••■ ■■■ 20 



Total 1036 



