XVlIl.] 
KOBE. 
365 
Kobe, or Hiogo, as the old Japanese part of the town is 
called, is a city of about 40,000 inhabitants, beautifully situated 
at the entrance to the Inland Sea of Japan, i.e., the sound 
which separates the main island from the south islands, Shikoku 
and Kiushiu. Mountain ridges of considerable height here run 
along the sea-shore. Some of the houses of the European 
merchants are built on the lower slopes of these hills, with high, 
beautiful, forest-clad heights as a background, and a splendid 
view of the harbour in front. The Japanese part of the town 
consists, as usual, of small houses which, on the side next the 
street, are occupied mainly with sale or work-shops where the 
distributed among the various branches of knowledge in the following 
way : 
History ... 
Number 
of Works. 
... 176 
On Buddhism and Education ... 
... 161 
On Shintoism 
.. 38 
On Christianity (printed in 1715) 
1 
Manners and Customs. 
... 33 
The Drama . 
... 13 
Laws . . . 
5 
Politics, Political argumentative writings, partly new 
and 
privately printed against the recent statues 
... 24 
Poetry and Prose fiction . 
... 137 
Heraldry, Antiquities, Ceremonies . 
... 27 
The Art of War and the Use of Weapons ... 
... 41 
Chess . 
1 
Coining ... 
4 
Dictionaries, Grammars 
... 18 
Geography, Maps 
... 76 
Natural History ... .. 
... 68 
The Science of Medicine 
... 13 
Arithmetic, Astronomy, Astrology 
... 39 
Handicrafts, Agriculture ... . 
... 43 
Notebooks 
... 73 
The art of making bouquets (Horticulture ?) 
... 16 
Bibliography 
9 
Various ... 
... 20 
Total ... 
... 1036 
