Japan

The Canal-side at Niigata - Awful Loneliness - Courtesy - Dr. Palm's Tandem - A Noisy Matsuri - A Jolting Journey - The Mountain Villages - Winter Dismalness - An Out-of-the-world Hamlet - Crowded Dwellings - Riding a Cow - "Drunk and Disorderly" - An Enforced Rest - Local Discouragements - Heavy Loads - Absence of Beggary - Slow Travelling.

ICHINONO, July 12.

A Travelling Curiosity - Rude Dwellings - Primitive Simplicity - The Public Bath-house.

KUROISHI.

A Group of Fathers - The Lebunge Ainos - The Salisburia adiantifolia- -A Family Group - The Missing Link - Oshamambe - Disorderly Horses - The River Yurapu - The Seaside - Aino Canoes - The Last Morning - Dodging Europeans.

HAKODATE, September 12.

Fears - Travelling Equipments - Passports - Coolie Costume - A Yedo Diorama - Rice-Fields - Tea-Houses - A Traveller's Reception - The Inn at Kasukabe - Lack of Privacy - A Concourse of Noises - A Nocturnal Alarm - A Vision of Policemen - A Budget from Yedo.

KASUKABE, June 10.

Comely Kine - Japanese Criticism on a Foreign Usage - A Pleasant Halt - Renewed Courtesies - The Plain of Yonezawa - A Curious Mistake- -The Mother's Memorial - Arrival at Komatsu - Stately Accommodation - A Vicious Horse - An Asiatic Arcadia - A Fashionable Watering-place - A Belle - "Godowns."

KAMINOYAMA.

by Lafcadio Hearn

"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back
to a time of rigid and pervading discipline" - WALTER BAGEHOT.

by Lafcadio Hearn