Excerpts from the Book 'Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan Vol I':

... a pair of common wooden chopsticks in a paper bag with a little drawing upon it even a package of toothpicks of cherry-wood, bound with a paper wrapper ...
... on either side of her, it produces an effect unimaginable. Then I find myself wondering whether my feeling of repulsion toward those twin monstrosities ...
... have a suit at law, he shall never gain it. If he love a woman, let him have no more expectation of winning her. Only by the most diligent piety can ...
... reflecting the state of souls and all the happenings of the world. A landscape now shadows its surface,-a landscape of cliffs and sand and ...
... symbol called by the Japanese manji. Akira tells me that in the book called Jizo-kyo-Kosui, this legend is related of the great statue of Jizo in ...
... placed there in the bamboo vases set beside each haka, and lanterns are lighted and hung up before the tombs, but these lanterns have no designs upon them. At ...
... beside it a little mat for me to squat upon. 'But what is this, Akira?' I ask, pointing to a thin board suspended by a ribbon on the wall-a board so ...
... been two hours among these people, their treatment of me, coupled with the sense of my utter inability to repay such kindness, causes a wicked wish to ...
... the bridge, accompanied by their venerable wives, and followed by their grown-up children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, amidst a great ...
... the left is Shusai- yama, all sharply green, with the giant Daikoku-yama overtopping all and its peaks bear the names of gods. Much more remote, upon ...
... Sasa, 'there are two long buildings called the Jiu-kusha. These contain nineteen shrines, no one of which is dedicated to any particular god and ...
... the haughty answer that he would receive no order from a man of common birth. [65] This defiance cost the family the loss of a large part of its estates ...
... a goblin-cat, for it has a long tail. It is hard work to discover the solitary hotel: there are no signs and every house seems a private ...
... boats, and the plaintive chants of oarsmen! A-ra-ho-no-san-no-sa, Iya-ho-en-ya! Ghi! Ghi! And we touch the mossed and ancient wharves of ...
... to visit Hinomisaki , where no European has ever been, and where there is a far-famed double temple dedicated to Amaterasu-oho-mi-Kami, the Lady of ...
... you should hate me as a great criminal. 'But though I doubt not this which I am about to do will seem a wicked folly, I am forced to it by conditions ...
... gods in English! Verily, the shyest love presumes much upon the forbearance of the gods. And great indeed must be, either the patience of Take-haya-susano-wo-no-mikoto, ...
... the night. Next day the kura was found to be empty. And there was no fire. There is also a well-authenticated story about another wealthy shopkeeper ...
... position of Professor of Japanese in the Imperial University of Japan-no small honour to English philology! [5] These Ni-O, however, the ...
... later paranoia and distrust of those around him. He eventually found a friend in the English printer and communalist Henry Watkin. With Watkin's help, ...