JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE,

IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

FROM RECENT DUTCH TRAVELS, ESPECIALLY THE NARRATIVE
OF VON SIEBOLD.

NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1852.

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vants.-Female servants.-Children by Japanese women.—

Restrictions upon their dealings.-Management of the trade.—

Police. -Interpreters. Intercourse with men in office.-

Trampling upon the picture of our Saviour.--Toleration and

subsequent persecution of Christianity.-Japanese martyrs.—

Anecdote of a wrecked Portuguese brig. Intercourse of

subordinate dignitaries.-Audiences of the Governor of Naga-

saki.-Dutch sepulchres

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CHAPTER III.

VISITS TO NAGASAKI AND ITS ENVIRONS.

Excursions permitted. · - Drawbacks. - Town of Nagasaki. -

Houses.-Gardens. — Fire-proof store-rooms. —Scenery.

Temples.-Tea-houses.-Education and extraordinary esti-

mation of courtezans. Visits. Religious festivals.

Japanese Demons. Hunting procession. - New Vol-

cano

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CHAPTER IV.

PERIODICAL JOURNEY TO YEDO.

Periods of the Yedo journeys.-Preliminary forms.-Numbers

of the party.-Honours paid to the Dutch President.—Ar-

ray of the party.-Travelling arrangements.-Sights upon

the journey.-Ikko-seu Temple.-Camphor tree. -Mineral

and hot springs.-Prince of Tsikuzen's apartment.-Coal

mine.-Mode of obtaining a fair wind. -Examination at

Aray.-River Oyegawa.-Mountain Foesi. -Examination

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at Fakone.-Anecdote.-Arrival

CHAPTER V.

STAY AT YEDO.

Yedo.-Palace.-Visitors.-Physicians and astronomers.-Gran-

dees and ladies.-Silkmercer.-Conflagration.

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Anecdote

respecting new lodgings.-Audience of the Ziogoon.-Cere-
monious visits.-Presents.-Forms in Kæmpfer's time.-
Japanese fancy for Dutch names.-Banquet

CHAPTER VI.

RETURN TO DEZIMA.

109-137

Leave-taking at Yedo.-Miyako.-The Mikado.-His extraordi-

nary dignity.-Honours paid him. His abdication or death.

-His wives.—His reception of, and visit to the Ziogoon at

Miyako.-Learning of the Dairi.-Ohosaka.-Amusements.

―Theatre. — Plays. Actors. Strange intermingling of

different plays. — Arrival. — Dutch distress during the in-

terruption of intercourse with Java.-Japanese endeavours

to relieve it.-Success and failure

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CHAPTER VII.

SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE.

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Condition of women.- Customs preceding and accompanying

Birth.-Naming the baby.-Treatment of children.-Edu-

cation.-Abdomen ripping.-Evil eye.-Change of name.-

Marriage. Courtship. - Marriage-brokers. · Presents.

Wedding. Abdication of heads of families. - Duties of

politeness. Correspondence. Presents. --Visits. — Ban-

quets. Tea-drinking.—Amusements.-Music.-Dancing. -

Games.-Forfeits.—Intoxication.-Rural and water parties.

Retailers of gossip, teachers of good manners.-Nayboen or

underhand death.-Ceremonies in the house of death.-Ob-

sequies.-Mourning

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