Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
by J. M. W. Silver
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About this eBook
- Author
- Silver, J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier)
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Doshisha University, Michael Ciesielski, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Japan -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 13051
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13051
- Release Date
- July 29, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.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.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.LIST OF PLATES. — JAPANESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — FIRES AND FIRE-BRIGADES
- 6.CHAPTER III. — DOMESTIC LIFE.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — THE TYCOON, DAIMIOS, AND ARISTOCRACY.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — THE COURT OF THE MIKADO.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — The 'HARA KIRU.'
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — NATIONAL GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — SUPERSTITIONS AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES.
- 13.CHAPTER X. — ON THE TOKAIDO AND IN THE TEA-HOUSES.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. — THE SPY SYSTEM—THE BATH-HOUSE.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. — LOVE OF FLOWERS.
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