Contents 



shima — Ebisu returns — Abbott — Kobe speaks 

 English — Osaka — Wakayama — The Bay of 

 Waka — A disconsolate giant — A little lady — 

 Physical handicaps — Our deferential young 

 friend — Garden of rest 



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1. Otaki replaces Abe — ^ Dr. Schneder — Unac- 

 customed ceremony— A study of the "hidden 

 hills" — A strange fish — Thrifty monkeys — 

 "Fauna Japonica" — Count Uesugi — The 

 earthquake at Ichinoseki — The Tokaido 



— Morioka — Morioka red iron — Waste of 

 talent — Japanese psychology — The grip of 

 caste — Gracious hospitality 



2. Mutsu and the Kitakami — Vagrant souls — 

 "Fool lacquer" — Aomori City — "Blackiston's 

 Line" — Hakodate — A big rock-pool catch — 

 Mororan — An afternoon off — Edomo — The 

 chief and his family — Official welcome — My 

 deficiencies revealed — Ainu women — The 

 Ainu race — Yamato invaders — Ainu resist- 

 ance — A difficult problem 



3. Crowded sea-wrack — A new industry — 

 Luscious fruits — Agriculture practically 

 limited to rice — ^ Local flora — "Manners 

 makyth man" — Japanese humor — Poor 

 economy — The sage of Sendai — Our helping 

 hand — The Shimonoseki affair — Grant at 

 Nikko — Sendai generosity 



4. "Cussing on the up grades" — Off for the 

 heights — • Sacred Nantai-san — The author 

 as botanist — Kegon-no-taki and Lake Chuzenji 



— Lacy Ryuzu — A flowery plain — Yumoto 

 and its surroundings — Riotous ornament — 

 Social strategy 



5. Addressing the teachers of Utsunomiya — 

 Yokosuka — ■ My strange preference — Kuri- 

 hama "birds" — Perry at Kurihama — Not 



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