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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.
SK
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
Page 24-50
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
-
51-79
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
80-108
at Fakone.-Anecdote.-Arrival
CHAPTER V.
STAY AT YEDO.
Yedo.-Palace.-Visitors.-Physicians and astronomers.-Gran-
dees and ladies.-Silkmercer.-Conflagration.
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
CHAPTER VII.
SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE.
138-167
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
163-197