{"title":"History - Asia - Japan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"unbeaten-tracks-in-japan-gb-2184","title":"Unbeaten Tracks in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnbeaten Tracks in Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving been recommended to leave\nhome, in April 1878, in order to recruit my health by means which\nhad proved serviceable before, I decided to visit Japan,\nattracted less by the reputed excellence of its climate than by\nthe certainty that it possessed, in an especial degree, those\nsources of novel and sustained interest which conduce so\nessentially to the enjoyment and restoration of a solitary\nhealth-seeker. The climate disappointed me, but, though I\nfound the country a study rather than a rapture, its interest\nexceeded my largest expectations.\nThis is not a Book on Japan, but a narrative of\ntravels in Japan, and an attempt to contribute something to the\nsum of knowledge of the present condition of the country, and it\nwas not till I had travelled for some months in the interior of\nthe main island and in Yezo that I decided that my materials were\nnovel enough to render the contribution worth making. From\nNikk northwards my route was altogether off the beaten\ntrack, and had never been traversed in its entirety by any\nEuropean. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of\nliving, in regions unaffected by European contact. As a\nlady travelling alone, and the first European lady who had been\nseen in several districts through which my route lay, my\nexperiences differed more or less widely from those of preceding\ntravellers; and I am able to offer a fuller account of the\naborigines of Yezo, obtained by actual acquaintance p. xwith them, than\nhas hitherto been given. These are my chief reasons for\noffering this volume to the public.\nIt was with some reluctance that I decided that it should\nconsist mainly of letters written on the spot to my sister and a\ncircle of personal friends, for this form of publication involves\nthe sacrifice of artistic arrangement and literary treatment, and\nnecessitates a certain amount of egotism; but, on the other hand,\nit places the reader in the position of the traveller, and makes\nhim share the vicissitudes of travel, discomfort, difficulty, and\ntedium, as well as novelty and enjoyment. The beaten\ntracks, with the exception of Nikk, have been\ndismissed in a few sentences, but where their features have\nundergone marked changes within a few years, as in the case of\nTkiy (Yedo), they have been sketched more or less\nslightly. Many important subjects are necessarily passed\nover.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2184 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2000 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bird, Isabella L. 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No work fully interpreting that life,no work\r\npicturing Japan within and without, historically and socially,\r\npsychologically and ethically,can be written for at least another\r\nfifty years. So vast and intricate the subject that the united labour\r\nof a generation of scholars could not exhaust it, and so difficult\r\nthat the number of scholars willing to devote their time to it must\r\nalways be small. Even among the Japanese themselves, no scientific\r\nknowledge of their own history is yet possible; because the means of\r\nobtaining that knowledge have not yet been prepared,though\r\nmountains of material have been collected. The want of any good\r\nhistory upon a modern plan is but one of many discouraging wants.\r\nData for the study of sociology [2] are still inaccessible to the\r\nWestern investigator. The early state of the family and the clan; the\r\nhistory of the differentiation of classes; the history of the\r\ndifferentiation of political from religious law; the history of\r\nrestraints, and of their influence upon custom; the history of\r\nregulative and cooperative conditions in the development of industry;\r\nthe history of ethics and aesthetics,all these and many other\r\nmatters remain obscure.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5979 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hearn, Lafcadio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213359513757,"sku":"gb-5979-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5979_8c79562c-32d0-4cf2-9e72-4abfa3d02b43.jpg?v=1671281936"},{"product_id":"peeps-at-many-lands-japan-gb-7936","title":"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeeps at Many Lands: Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nFar away from our land, on the other side of the world, lies a group of\r\nislands which form the kingdom of Japan. The word \"Japan\" means the \"Land\r\nof the Rising Sun,\" and it is certainly a good name for a country of the\r\nFar East, the land of sunrise.\r\n\n\r\nThe flag of Japan, too, is painted with a rising sun which sheds its beams\r\non every hand, and this flag is now for ever famous, so great and wonderful\r\nhave been the victories in which it has been borne triumphant over Russian\r\narms.\r\n\n\r\nIn some ways the Japanese are fond of comparing themselves with their\r\nEnglish friends and allies. They point out that Japan is a cluster of\r\nislands off the coast of Asia, as Britain is a cluster of islands off the\r\ncoast of Europe. They have proved themselves, like the English, brave and\r\nclever on the sea, while their troops have fought as nobly as British\r\nsoldiers on the land. They are fond of calling themselves the \"English of\r\nthe East,\" and say that their land is the \"Britain of the Pacific.\"\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7936 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Finnemore, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Du Cane, Ella, 1874-1943 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Finnemore, John,1863-1915 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215478161565,"sku":"gb-7936-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7936.jpg?v=1671289684"},{"product_id":"in-ghostly-japan-gb-8128","title":"In Ghostly Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Ghostly Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nAnd it was at the hour of sunset that they came to the foot of the mountain.\r\nThere was in that place no sign of life,neither token of water, nor\r\ntrace of plant, nor shadow of flying bird,nothing but desolation rising\r\nto desolation. And the summit was lost in heaven.\r\n\n\r\nThen the Bodhisattva said to his young companion:What you have\r\nasked to see will be shown to you. But the place of the Vision is far; and the\r\nway is rude. Follow after me, and do not fear: strength will be given\r\nyou.\r\n\n\r\nTwilight gloomed about them as they climbed. There was no beaten path, nor any\r\nmark of former human visitation; and the way was over an endless heaping of\r\ntumbled fragments that rolled or turned beneath the foot. Sometimes a mass\r\ndislodged would clatter down with hollow echoings;sometimes the\r\nsubstance trodden would burst like an empty shell.Stars pointed and thrilled;\r\nand the darkness deepened.\r\n\n\r\nUnder the stars they climbed,fast, fast,mounting by help of power\r\nsuperhuman. High zones of mist they passed; and they saw below them, ever\r\nwidening as they climbed, a soundless flood of cloud, like the tide of a milky\r\nsea.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8128 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hearn, Lafcadio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215491956893,"sku":"gb-8128-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/8128.jpg?v=1671290466"},{"product_id":"glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-first-series-gb-8130","title":"Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Introduction to his charming Tales of Old Japan, Mr. Mitford\r\nwrote in 1871:\n'The books which have been written of late years about Japan have either\r\nbeen compiled from official records, or have contained the sketchy\r\nimpressions of passing travellers. Of the inner life of the Japanese the\r\nworld at large knows but little: their religion, their superstitions,\r\ntheir ways of thought, the hidden springs by which they moveall these\r\nare as yet mysteries.'\nThis invisible life referred to by Mr. Mitford is the Unfamiliar Japan\r\nof which I have been able to obtain a few glimpses. The reader may,\r\nperhaps, be disappointed by their rarity; for a residence of little more\r\nthan four years among the peopleeven by one who tries to adopt their\r\nhabits and customsscarcely suffices to enable the foreigner to begin\r\nto feel at home in this world of strangeness. None can feel more than\r\nthe author himself how little has been accomplished in these volumes,\r\nand how much remains to do.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8130 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hearn, Lafcadio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hearn, Lafcadio,1850-1904 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215492087965,"sku":"gb-8130-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/8130.jpg?v=1671290473"},{"product_id":"glimpses-of-unfamiliar-japan-second-series-gb-8133","title":"Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMY little two-story house by the Ohashigawa, although dainty as a bird-\r\ncage, proved much too small for comfort at the approach of the hot\r\nseasonthe rooms being scarcely higher than steamship cabins, and so\r\nnarrow that an ordinary mosquito-net could not be suspended in them. I\r\nwas sorry to lose the beautiful lake view, but I found it necessary to\r\nremove to the northern quarter of the city, into a very quiet Street\r\nbehind the mouldering castle. My new home is a katchiu-yashiki, the\r\nancient residence of some samurai of high rank. It is shut off from the\r\nstreet, or rather roadway, skirting the castle moat by a long, high wall\r\ncoped with tiles. One ascends to the gateway, which is almost as large\r\nas that of a temple court, by a low broad flight of stone steps; and\r\nprojecting from the wall, to the right of the gate, is a look-out\r\nwindow, heavily barred, like a big wooden cage. Thence, in feudal days,\r\narmed retainers kept keen watch on all who passed byinvisible watch,\r\nfor the bars are set so closely that a face behind them cannot be seen\r\nfrom the roadway. 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No final deste livro\nencontrar a lista de erros corrigidos.\n\nRita\nFarinha (Maio 2008)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPAISAGENS DA CHINA E DO JAPO\n\n\n\nWENCESLAU DE MORAES\n\nPaisagens\n\nda\n\nChina e do Japo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLISBOA\nlivraria editora\n\nVIUVA TAVARES CARDOSO\n5, Largo de Cames, 6\n\n\n1906\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLISBOA\n\n\nTyp. de Francisco Luiz Gonalves\n\n80, Rua do Alecrim, 82\n\n\n1906\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Camillo Pessanha e Joo Vasco\n\nNos baldes da\nvida bohemia, na\nconfusa successo dos dias e das scenas,\nacontece que os factos, as coisas, os individuos,\ninvocados pela pobre memoria\nexhausta, vo perdendo pouco a pouco\nas suas qualidades intensivas, as suas\ncres, os seus contornos, a sua feio\npropria, emancipando-se do real, como\numa pagina de aguarella desmerece,\nsolta e perdida no espao e voando com\nas brisas; diluindo-se por fim n'uma\nemoo generica, vaga, indifinivel,a\nsaudade.A essas duas grandes saudades,\nCamillo Pessanha e Joo Vasco,\ndedico hoje este livro.\n\n\nKobe, 10 de Abril de\n1901.\n\n\nWenceslau\nde Moraes.\n\n\n\n\n\nAS BORBOLETAS\n\n\na\nJ. Moreira de S.\n\n\n\n\nA lenda das borboletas.\n\n\nSo to lindas, as borboletas! Quem as\nv, que\nno lhes queira? ahi vagabundando pelo azul dos\ncampos, razando as corollas frescas, amando-se,\nbeijando-se, libertas da larva abjecta, como almas\nde amantes despidas da miseria terreal, a viajarem\nno infinito... So to lindas, as borboletas!...\n\n\nMas na China so talvez mais lindas do que todas.\n um deslumbramento surprehendel-as na\nquietao dos bosques, voejando aos pares, que se\ntocam, que se abraam, e enfiando pelas sombras\nmysteriosas dos bambuaes, com as suas longas azas\n[2]palpitantes,\nlancioladas, em matizes maravilhosos,\nde negros avelludados, de azues meigos, de amarellos\nquentes, como se as loucas vestissem cabaias\nde setim, de sedas de alto preo...\n\n\n\n\nChoc-In-Toi, a deliciosa Choc-In-Toi, habitava,\nha longos seculos, uma pacifica aldeia do Yang-tsze-kiang,\nno longe do logar que hoje se diz Shanghae.\nComo fosse muito dada a estudos litterarios\ne as escolas do seu sexo no lhe satisfizessem a\nambio,\nconseguiu que seus paes lhe permittissem o\ndisfarar-se em homem, e assim abalou, a ir frequentar\na mais famosa universidade do imperio. Volveu\nao lar apz tres annos; volveu to pura como\nfra; da\nsua innocencia ha provas irrecusaveis. Para no divagar\nmuito n'estas paginas, basta dizer a quem me\nqueira ouvir, que um leno de seda branca, que ella\nenterrara na lama em presena d'uma sua cunhada\npredisposta a vaticinar-lhe rudes lances, foi depois\ntirado sem uma s mancha e sem um s\nfarpo,\nbranco, puro, como a alma da donzella; e basta saber\nque as flres da sua preferencia, que ella deixra\nno jardim, rogando aos deus\nChoc-In-Toi, a deliciosa Choc-In-Toi, habitava,\nha longos seculos, uma pacifica aldeia do Yang-tsze-kiang,\nno longe do logar que hoje se diz Shanghae.\nComo fosse muito dada a estudos litterarios\ne as escolas do seu sexo no lhe satisfizessem a\nambio,\nconseguiu que seus paes lhe permittissem o\ndisfarar-se em homem, e assim abalou, a ir frequentar\na mais famosa universidade do imperio. Volveu\nao lar apz tres annos; volveu to pura como\nfra; da\nsua innocencia ha provas irrecusaveis. Para no divagar\nmuito n'estas paginas, basta dizer a quem me\nqueira ouvir, que um leno de seda branca, que ella\nenterrara na lama em presena d'uma sua cunhada\npredisposta a vaticinar-lhe rudes lances, foi depois\ntirado sem uma s mancha e sem um s\nfarpo,\nbranco, puro, como a alma da donzella; e basta saber\nque as flres da sua preferencia, que ella deixra\nno jardim, rogando aos deuses que as conservassem\nfrescas como ella, assim se conservaram\ndurante a longa ausencia, embora, como consta, a\n[3]\ncunhada as fosse regando com agua quente tirada\nda chaleira.\n\n\n\nDurante\nos tres annos de seu estudo, um companheiro,\npor nome Leun-San-Pac,\nintimamente se lhe afeioou.\nEra o seu camarada inseparavel,\no seu irmo; dormindo juntos, conversando\njuntos, estudando juntos,\ndivagando, sonhando; e o lorpa\ndo mocinho nunca se apercebeu\nque tinha a seu lado uma\nmulher.\n\n\nQuando soou a hora das despedidas,\ncortava o corao vr o\nrapaz, lamentando o futuro isolamento,\na perda d'um amigo\ncomo aquelle. A moa consolava-o.\nA moa poisava-lhe nos\nhombros as suas mos gentis, e\nexhortava-o a que se enchesse de\ncoragem, a que se entregasse ao\namor do estudo, t alcanar um\nalto grau de sapiencia.E depois, dizia-lhe ella\nentre soluos, e depois, se com saudade te recordares\n[4]\nainda\nde mim, abala, vem vr me  minha\naldeia.E dava-lhe indicaes\nprecisas do logar.\nDespediram-se, entre choros.\n\n\nA donzella esperou, esperou, esperou,quem\npoder descrever esse tormento? guardando da familia\no seu segredo; e o moo no apparecia. Segundo\nos usos do paiz, os paes destinaram-lhe um\nmarido; e ella, a desolada, escrava da obediencia\nfilial, obediencia cega, indiscutivel, que  a base da\nvida inteira moral do povo china, inclinou-se, acceitou,\nsem que uma s queixa proferisse.\n\n\nTres dias decorridos depois do contracto nupcial,\neis que chega  aldeia o pobre Leun-San-Pac; pobre,\nporque a desventura se lhe acerca; mas rico de\nerudio, de uma alma culta, e occupando um logar\nproeminente. Encontra o seu amigo, encontra o seu\nirmo; mas agora sem disfarces, na graa plena\ndos\nseus enlevos femininos, na gentil elegancia das vestes\nque lhe so proprias, e com grinaldas de flores\nna trana negra. De comeo, este enigma, pouco a\npouco explicado, confunde-o, desnortea-o; mas tudo\nse aclara; da amisade ao amor o salto  rapido. Oh!\nelle ama-a agora, elle ama-a de todas as foras do\nseu ser; e no olhar de fogo transluzem mil mysterios\nde adoraes e de desejos!...  tarde.\nA\npalavra dada ao feliz noivo no se quebra. Os velhos\n[5]\npaes prezam mais do que tudo, a propria\nhonra.\n\n\nElle parte; elle parte para um logar visinho, louco,\ncom a alma embebida no fel dos desesperos.\n ainda ella, a doce pomba obediente, que tenta\nconsolal-o. Ella escreve-lhe; ella diz-lhe que a vida\nno  eterna; que a piedade filial arrasta-a a um\nconsorcio que s lhe vaticina dores e prantos; mas\nque as almas so livres, emigram d'uns corpos para\noutros; encarnam-se n'outros seres; que elle socegue,\naguarde outra existencia, para a qual ella\nlhe jura ser a sua companheira, toda fidelidade e\ntoda amor. Leun-San-Pac l, faz um bolo d'essa\ncarta, onde to demoradamente poisara a mo da\nsua bella, e engole-o, e suffoca-se com elle, e exhala\nassim na solido o ultimo suspiro. Um pouco alm,\nsobre a montanha, se lhe elevou a sepultura.\n\n\n\n\nSoam bategas festivas, estalejam nos ares fogos\nde gala, de alegria; e pela longa estrada em ziguezague,\nbordada aqui e alli de bambus e bananeiras,\ndoirada pelo sol do meio dia, serpea em rutilantes\ntheorias o monumental cortejo do noivado, caminho\ndo lar feliz.\n\nO estylo de ha mil annos\n o mesmo estylo de\n[6]\nhoje. So os grandes bales, os estandartes,\nconduzidos\npor moos vestidos de vermelho. So os\nenxovaes primorosos, as cabaias, a colleco dos\nsapatinhos,\ntudo disposto nas liteiras luzentes dos esmaltes. So as\ncolossaes peas\nde doaria,\ncastellos\nde assucar,\ndrages de assucar,\ncoisas\nespantosas. So os porcos\nassados, loiros,\ndeliciosos, espalmados sobre os taboleiros, com\nlaos de fita nos focinhos. So as orchestras\nestridentes,\nde flautas, de rebecas. So as creanas\nataviadas em setins, em allegorias de scenas de outros\ntempos, cavalgando alimarias pachorrentas. \nfinalmente a liteira da noiva, toda ella oiros, toda\nella esmaltes, fechada como um cofre, furtando \nvista dos curiosos o precioso fardo, Choc-In-Toi.\n\n\n\n\nA noiva solicita do cortejo um curto desvio na\nsua marcha. A noiva, antes de entrar no lar e de\n[7]\nser esposa e escrava, quer abeirar-se, alm, d'aquella\nsepultura esquecida na montanha, e orar junto\ndos restos do que morreu por ella. Quem lhe recusaria\ntal licena? Eil-a que desce da liteira, nas\nsuas cabaias deslumbrantes; e eil-a que se prostra,\neil-a que beija a terra...\n\nA terra abre-se ento,\ncarinhosa, me; a terra\ntraga-a, chama-a a si, chama-a para junto dos ossos\ndo seu querido. A comitiva pasma do milagre.\nAs mos avanam a detel-a; mas s\nlogram colher\num pedao do vestido, que se rasga, e  tudo... O\npedao de seda,\nde mil matizes,\ntransforma-se\nde subito\nn'uma borboleta\nde mil\ncres, que va\ndas mos rudes,\ne desapparece no azul,\ndesapparece!...  desde aquella epocha que ha borboletas\nn'este mundo, to lindas, to cheias de\nmatizes!...\n\n\n\n\nEu no lhes estou contando uma mentira, meus\n[8]\namigos. Ainda hoje se v a sepultura, esboroada\npelos seculos, d'aquelles amorosos. E as esposas\ndesprezadas alem vo em romaria, e d'aquella terra\nbemdita se suprem s mos cheias, e d'ella\nprovam,\ne disfarada com o arroz a ministram aos maridos.\nConsta que o estranho tempero, aquella terra,\nque em alguma coisa participa da essencia dos\namantes que ali jazem para sempre, tem virtude\ncomsigo, e  sempre efficaz em trazer ao bom caminho\nos mariolas, os maridos.\n\n\n\n\nA ALFORRECA\n\n\n\na Henrique Carvalhosa.\n\n\n\n\nFalla a lenda japoneza.\n\n\nAntigamentee quem sabe se ainda hoje!no\nseio do oceano era o reino faustuoso dos drages.\nPor longos annos, o senhor d'este reino, o\ndrago real, viveu celibatario, n'uma existencia descuidosa;\ne sabem s os deuses, e no ns,\nquantas\nnoites de dissipao, em companhia de tartarugas\ne lagostas ligeiras de costumes, que lhe cantavam\ntrovas ao som do shamicen e lhe iam\nservindo sak\nem ricas taas, quantas noites elle passou em travessas\nintimidades amorosas!...\n\nVerdores, que passam breve. Um\nbello dia, resolveu\n[10]\ncasar-se, o bom soberano. A noiva escolhida\nfoi uma joven dragasita, dezeseis annos apenas,\nadoravel, digna pelos seus mil encantos de ser a\nconsorte feliz de tal senhor. Explendidas foram as\nbodas por essa\noccasio, segundo\nconsta: sem j\nfallar na crte intima,\ntoda a bicharia\naquatica,\npeixes, mariscos,\nmolluscos, todos vieram processionalmente,\nem cardumes, em bellos kimonos\nde sedas encarnadas, offerecer\nseus respeitos e presentes; e foram,\ndurante longos dias, estupendos regabofes, em\ndanas, em musicas, em\nbanquetes...\n\n\n\n\nMas nem os drages escapam s\nduras provaes da existencia! Ainda\nbem um mez se no passra, quando a augusta\nsoberana\ncaiu doente; e taes cuidados inspirou desde\nlogo o seu estado, que era uma lastima observar as\ntrombas compungidas dos fidalgos, commentando\n[11]\nbaixinho, em lamentaes do seu officio, o triste\ncaso.\nReuniram-se os doutores em conferencia; fallaram\nmuito, discutiram muito, sem chegarem a accordo,\ncomo sempre succede; consultaram-se abalisados\nalfarrabios de therapeutica; as barbatanas incanaveis\nrabiscaram um milho de receitas milagrosas,\ne todas as tisanas se serviram. Baldado intento;\na soberana extinguia-se; e afinal os focinhos dos\nsabios, n'um tregeito de piedade e desengano, tiveram\nde ser francos, de declarar que a scienciaj\nn'aquella epoca se enchia a bocca com a\nscienciaque\na sciencia nada mais podia fazer, e que um\nangustioso desfecho era de esperar-se.\n\n\n\n\nDo seu leito de enferma, de entre os\nfuton, as\nfofas colchas de setim, agita as tremulas patinhas\na rainha; chama junto de si o esposo, e diz-lhe\nestas palavras ao ouvido:Uma s coisa me\nsalvar:\narranquem o figado a um macaco vivo, e consintam\nque o devore; recuperarei a saude....O\nrei no poude reprimir um gesto de surpresa, quasi\nde enfado, e todo se lhe erriou o bigode\nfaanhudo:Um\nfigado de macaco! ests louca, minha\nquerida!...Ella promptamente retrucou:Louca,\nporqu? Vossa magestade esquece por ventura,\n[12]\nque ns, o grande povo dos drages, no mar\nvivemos\nsempre; emquanto que os macacos, muito longe\nd'aqui, vivem na terra, nos bosques, entre as arvores,\nnutrindo-se de fructos... No figado do mono\nalguma coisa vir que participe d'esse mundo, to\ndiverso, to outro;\ne essa particula\nestranha,\nsenhor, me salvaria!...E\na rainha, a\nquem as lagrimas\nacodem,\nprosegue n'um\ntom reprehensivo\ne lastimoso:Uma\ninsignificancia,\num nada, pedi, e esse nada vossa magestade me recusa.\nJulgava merecer-lhe mais affectos. Dispa-me\nd'estas pompas de soberana, no as quero; d a\ncora a outra esposa, mais digna, mais formosa;\nconsinta que volva ao ninho carinhoso de meus\npaes...A voz suffoca-se em soluos,\nno pode\nmais proferir uma s queixa...\n\n\nO rei dos drages no queria passar, entre damas\n[13]\npor um drago cruel; por demais conhecia elle\nos caprichos pueris do sexo fragil, mas perdoava-os\ncomplacentemente, por systema; e sobretudo adorava\na esposa, cujas lagrimas desejaria poupar a todo o\ntranse. Satisfaa-se pois o capricho da rainha. Mandou\nchamar a sua escrava mais fiel e dedicada, a\nalforreca, e disse-lhe o seguinte:Vou dar-te uma\nespinhosa tarefa, minha velha, mas confio na tua\ndedicao nunca mentida; preciso que emprehendas\numa longa viagem, que nades at junto da terra, e\nalli convenas um macaco a vir comtigo a estes meus\nreinos; falla-lhe, para o resolveres, da magica belleza\nd'estes sitios, to differentes dos seus, e da gentileza\nd'estes meus subditos\nfelizes; mas o que\neu realmente quero\nn'este caso,  que se\narranque o figado das\nentranhas de tal mono,\ne se sirva como\nmedicamento  tua\njoven ama, que, como\nde certo sabes,\nse acha em perigo de\nvida, a desditosa.\n\n\n[14]\nL vae, oceano fra, vento em ppa, a\nalforreca,\nemissaria obediente e ufanosa do encargo. Por\naquelles tempos, a alforreca, como qualquer bicho\ndas aguas, era um animal gracioso, de contornos esbeltos,\ncom cabecinha, com olhinhos, com mosinhas,\ne com a competente cauda titillante; e ficava-lhe\nto bem o fato de marujo!... L vae, oceano\nfra, olhar sereno e cogitador, rompendo a vigorosas\nbraadas a onda fria. No tarda muito a\nabeirar-se\ndo paiz onde vivem os macacos; por felicidade,\num alem est, um lindo mono, saltando de ramo em\nramo, dependurando-se das arvores que enraizam\nnos penedos e se debruam sobre o mar.Bons\ndias, senhor macaco. Eu venho aqui expressamente\npara fallar-lhe d'um paiz longinquo, muito mais bello\ndo que o seu;  elle situado alem das ondas e conhecido\npelo reino dos drages; alli, no ha\nestaes,\n eterna a amenidade do clima; alli, nas copas das\narvores repolhudas, constantemente amanhecem avelludados\nfructos saborosos,  colhel-os, no ha outra\ntarefa; para cumulo do conforto, essas creaturas\nmalfazejas, homens chamados, no pisam taes paragens.\nSe lhe agrada vir commigo, eu serei o seu\nguia; no tem mais que fazer do que saltar d'esse\ntronco para cima do meu lombo... O macaco\nachou gracioso isso de ir vr novos paizes. V\nl[15]\nmais esta extravagancia  conta da bohemia\nsimiesca.Ao\nlargo, amiga!E l foram os dois;\nporm,\na meia travessia, pensou tardiamente o mono na\ntemeridade do seu feito, expondo-se assim ao arbitrio\nd'um extrangeiro, e abandonando a sua patria.\nDecidiu-se emfim a perguntar:Que pensa voc\nque vo fazer de mim na sua terra?A alforreca\ndeveria agora ser discreta,\nencapotar as respostas\nem evasivas; mas oiam l\no que ella deu em troco:Eu\nlhe digo: meu amo,\nrei dos drages, ordena\nao senhor macaco que arranque\no proprio figado, o\nqual vae ser servido  nossa\nsoberana, hoje enferma,\ne salval-a da morte.Ento o mono, guardando\npara si os commentarios que o caso suggeria, disse\ncortzmente, que era para elle uma alta honra e um\nesperado prazer, o assim tornar-se util a sua magestade;\nacrescentou, porem, que agora se lembrava\nde ter deixado o figado dependurado n'um tronco de\narvore, aquelle mesmo castanheiro d'onde saltara\npara as costas da alforreca. Continuou discursando\nem linguagem fluente, de orador emerito, descendo\n[16]\na explanaes minuciosas; e explicou como o\nfigado\nera uma coisa bastante pesada, embaraosa, um\nquasi alforge de peregrino, um empecilho que elle\ncostumava pr de parte, durante o dia, para se entregar\nmais  vontade aos seus exercicios de acrobata;\nhabitos de familia, j seu av fazia o mesmo; e\nconcluiu,\nque o melhor que tinham a fazer n'este momento,\nera voltarem para trs, e na arvore encontrariam\no figado em questo.\n\n\nNo pz objeces a\nnadadora. Voltando  terra,\no macaco saltou ao castanheiro com uma ligeireza\nnunca vista, nem mesmo entre macacos, acompanhando\no pulo d'uma alegre careta e d'um gesto que\ntraduzia o jubilo do bestunto, coisa que passou estranha\n alforreca. Procurou entre as folhas o seu\nfigado. No o encontrou. Explicou ento do alto,\n\nalforreca, que provavelmente algum companheiro o\nlevra para longe, o que o obrigava a mais demoradas\npesquisas pelo bosque; no entretanto que fsse\nella contar o caso ao seu senhor, que devia estar\nancioso por vl-a chegar antes da noite.\n\n\n\n\nAssim procedeu o bicho.\n\n\nEl-rei, que a esperava, e que a escutou, enraivecido\npor tamanha ingenuidadepara no lhe chamar\n[17]\ncoisa mais feia,mandou logo vir da maladia\num bando dos seus mais soberbos\nsamurais, e ordenou-lhes\nque malhassem no bicho  pancada, at\ncanarem.\nO castigo foi cumprido, e com esse vigor de\nbraos de villes, que miram aos applausos do\nmonarcha.\n esta a razo porque a alforreca, hoje em\ndia, no tem pernas, nem cabea, nem cauda, nem\nbarbatanas: tanta pancada levou, que ficou reduzida\na esta miseria, massa informe, um farrapo, um pedao\nde gelatina, boiando despresivelmente  merc\ndo turbilho das vagas.\n\n\nCom respeito  soberana, reconsiderando no disparate\ndo seu capricho, concluiu que o melhor que\ntinha a fazer era erguer-se da cama e pr-se ba; e\nassim fez, com grande pasmo dos doutores.\n\n\n\n\nA historia da alforreca est contada, na sua simplicidade\ncommovente.  veridica esta historia, como\ntudo que o povo relata de memoria; creia n'ella quem\ncr. Fica-se j sabendo no entretanto,e\n isto d'um\nproveitoso ensinamento,que os japonezes to prodigamente\npropensos ao perdo para tantos pecadilhos\nde alma e de costumes, castigam os patetas.\n\n\nDiga-se francamente: esta desgraa da alforreca,\n[18]\nno paiz do sol nascente, era inevitavel; e o caso presta-se\na interessantes commentarios, que eu vou resumir\nem poucas linhas. Os japonezespovo de\nartistasso os grandes amorosos da\ncreao, da\nforma, da vida; ninguem como elles conhece os segredos\nda ave, do insecto, do reptil, do peixe, dos\nmolluscos, do verme, de todos os seres da terra; a\nanimalidade graciosa d'esses seres, estudada com\npercepes especiaes, que nos escapam, constitue\no\nthemamil e mil vezes\nvariado, dos seus primores\nde arte. Mas esse monstro, essa disformidade, essa\nalforreca que se apresenta como unica excepo da\nlei geral da gentileza da vida, e parece resumir em\nsi o enfado inteiro d'um dia de mau humor do Omnipotente,\ndevia ter deixado impresses tristes nos primeiros\njaponezes\nque a avistaram;\ne foi preciso\narranjar logo\numa explicao\ncondigna do\nphenomeno, e \na que ficou descripta\nn'estas linhas.\n\n\n ainda interessante recordar de passagem a\n[19]\napproximao, pela desdita, da alforreca japoneza\ncom a medusa mythologica da Grecia, no merecendo\nesta melhor tratamento dos deuses olympicos. Curiosa\ncoincidencia!\n\n\n\nO ANNO NOVO\n\n\n\na Feliciano do Rozario.\n\n\n\n\nTemos festa hoje, aqui. Acaba o anno velho, comea\no anno novo. Mas no vo imaginar que seja\ndo anno novo de que rezam os nossos calendarios,\na commemorao; tal\ncommemorao, aqui, no fim\ndo mundo, no seio d'esta colonia nostalgica, passa\ninsipida, quasi sem alvoroos intimos de familia, limitada\n troca banaltroca sem\ncedilha e com cedilhade\nalgumas duzias de bilhetes de visita, com\nas competentes boas-festas\nescriptas, da pragmatica.\nTrata-se do anno lunar que finda, do anno lunar que\nprincipia, o anno chinez emfim, a ampulheta que\nmarca para o povo amarello as suas horas de existencia;\n[21]\nvamos entrar no anno XXII do reinado de\nsua magestade imperial celestial, Kuang-Su.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTemos festa hoje, aqui. A alma chineza manifesta-se,\nevidencea-se, domina, hoje; offusca, pela grande\nmaioria dos rabichos, o pallido reflexo da\ncivilisao\ndo Occidente que logrou chegar a este Macau,\na este exiguo penedo asiatico, onde Portugal\nimplantou a sua bandeira.\n\n\nMeia noite. Ao meu obscuro albergue, chega, de\nalem dos bazares, o ruido da bombardada amotinadora\ndos foguetes, e das mil e mil embarcaes\nfundeadas\nno porto o clamor ovante das bategas, vibradas\npelas mos rudes das companhas. Que ir\nl por esses bazares, a estas horas, santo Deus!...\nEu no me arredo do meu canto. Bem sei que a febre\ndas massas suggestiona, contamina todos. Bem\nsei que no se dorme hoje; que no ha\nchapo de\ncco de amanuense ou kepi de militar, direi mesmo\nchapelinho de pellucia com laarotes de setim e seu\ncompetente passaro empalhado, de menina, que no\nv correr as viellas, perder-se na onda, confundir-se\ncom os rabichos, gosar com elles. Mas est tanto\nfrio, e as bagas de agua zurzem-me to desapiedadamente\n[22]\nos vidros das janellas... E, peor do que\nisto,  o frio da alma,  a apathia enervante do\nmeu\nespirito,  o sorriso amargo que me enruga os labios,\nprovocado por esse mesmo jubilo do enxame, que\naqui me retem e me impedem de tambem ir galhofar.\n\n\n\n\n\nNo, decididamente no serei da festa. Imagino-a\nd'aqui. Imagino essas ruas lamacentas, coalhadas de\npovo sujo, com as cabaias negras ensopadas dos\nchuvascos; e imagino os lumes tremeluzentes das\nlanternas de papel, accendendo nas poas, pelo reflexo...\ngrandes labaredas ephemeras, ziguezagueando.\nAs lojas esto escancaradas ao publico; fructos,\nflres, doces, carnias, bonecos, coisas santas,\nestendem-se\n[23]\npelos caminhos em prodigiosas theorias, em\ncoloridos quasi estonteantes; e  comprar, e comprar\nj, porque no tarda em romper o glorioso dia\nde descano, o unico na China em que o camponez,\no artifice, o vendilho, todos, cruzam os braos,\nno\ntrabalham; e nem a peso de ouro se encontraria um\nlinguado, uma caixa de phosphoros, qualquer infimo\nobjecto nos mercados. As espeluncas de jogo, em\ngalas desusadas, offerecem-se, tentam a onda; e at\npelas ruas o taboleiro de azar se estende ao passeante.\nQue pechincha, se se apanha para a festa\num accrescimo de peculio no esperado! O china\nadora o jogoera preciso que elle adorasse alguma\ncoisa!mas hoje todos jogam, todos so chinas, e\n isto um exemplo interessante da influencia suggestiva\ndas grandes maiorias; a mo mais circumspecta\nde funccionario, a mo mais mimosa de dama\n(de nhnha, em dialecto\nvulgar d'esta colonia) avanam\nsem pejo, arriscam  sorte varia umas pratinhas...\n\n\nQuando bate meia noite; quando, junto do altar\ndos penates, se curvaram em piedosas adoraes\nmilhares de cabeas agradecidas, e se queimaram\npapeis mysticos, e se accenderam pivetes odorificos;\nquando em plena rua um brado de alleluia os echos\nacordou; dirige-se ento a onda humana para o lar,\n[24]\nj mercas feitas, j bolsas esvasiadas; e vae\nsurgir\num grande dia votado inteiro ao descano, votado\n\nglorificao dos deuses, cuja magnanima\nassistencia\nse exalta pelas graas concedidas e pelas graas\nque\nvo esperar-se!....\n\n\nMesquinha humanidade! como tu me entristeces,\n pobre humanidade,  pobre familia minha, ainda\nmais nos teus regosijos e nas tuas esperanas, do\nque nos teus choros e nos teus desenganos!... Para\neste bando chinez com quem me encontro agora,\nque exploso de benos lhe estimula a\nsentimentalidade?\nque altos beneficios commemora? O bando\nabenoa a sua eterna existencia de miseria, a miseria\npassada, a presente e a que fatalmente vae seguir-se-lhe.\nAbenoa a labuta sem treguas, em busca\ndo punhado de arroz de cada dia; ora exercida\nno lar immundo, sem sombra de conforto; ora exercida\npelos campos, nas varzeas, nas collinas, no amanho\nda terra, sob a oppresso constante dos raios\ndo sol que escalda, ou dos frios que paralysam; ora\nexercida nos barcos, que se cruzam na podrido dos\nestuarios, ou pairam sobre a onda adormecida durante\nas calmas torpidas, ou se desfazem no escarceo,\nquando os tufes rugem em furia. O bando\nabena\na fatalidade da sua condio social, o problema\nespantoso, paradoxal, do seu feitio de ser, que em\n[25]\ntodas as depravaes, em todas as iniquidades\nimaginaveis,\nparece ir buscar as leis unicas por que se\nrege. O bando abena ainda as calamidades\ntremendas,\nque n'estes ultimos tempos, como\numa\nmaldio\ndivina, teem pairado sobre a immensa patria:nas\nprovincias do sul, nos seus centros mais populosos,\n a peste, a peste negra, roubando em cada\nlar um ou dois filhos, ou o pae, ou a me, ou mesmo\ntodos juntos, e vestindo de lucto, de tristes roupas\nalvas, os parentes, e ameaando estabelecer-se\ndefinitivamente, enraizar como uma arvore de peonha,\nd'onde emanar a cada instante o veneno subtil,\ndestruidor das turbas; e, para cumulo de infortunio\ne de descredito, um visinho, um povo irmo,\no povo japonez, invade, vence e desbarata a China,\nmorde e come pedaos do seu torro sagrado,\nenvergonha-a,\nofferece-a ao escarneo do mundo na\nmiserrima condio da sua plebe e na opulenta\ninfamia\ndos seus nobres, desprestigiada emfim, indefeza\n cubia das gentes, aos homens loiros da Europa,\nque no tardaro em vir espezinhal-a.Embora!\nesqueam-se hoje as miserias, vista-se o povo\nem gala, chovam benos sobre o anno que\ncomea.\nE amanh, decorridas algumas horas de folgana,\nrecomecem, prosigam,pouco importa!os turvos\ndias de amargura, a fatalidade da existencia no antro,\n[26]\na dura labuta no campo e no barco, a faina eterna,\na orgia torpe dos maridos, a escravido das esposas,\na venda das filhas a quem mais der, os horrores\nda\nprostituio, as vergastadas nas creadinhas,\nas extores dos mandarins, as torturas nos\ncarceres,\na morte lenta nos patibulos, a obra de destruio\ndas epidemias e do opio, as humilhaes perante\no vencedor, as exigencias\ndo Occidente,\nas arrogancias\ndos homens loiros...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPara o anno novo,\ntudo se prepara\ncom antecedencia,\nem prodigiosa azafama;\n para todos\numa occupao incessante\ne desusada,\ndurante as ultimas\nsemanas do anno que\nvae findar. Lavam-se\nos covis, lavam-se\nas podres mobilias.  o p d'um anno que se\nsacode,\n[27]\n a lama d'um anno que se deita fra,\n\no piolho e  a pulga d'um anno que se afogam\nna onda das barrelas; porque, durante os labores\nde cada dia, nunca a ida de limpeza preoccupou\nos espiritos durante um s instante. Tudo\n providencial neste mundo, ao que parece. Na chafurda\ntypica d'estas povoaes chinezas, to\nfrequentemente\nvisitadas por todas as pragascholera,\npeste, lepra,embebidas no lodo dos canaes,\nno ambiente das emanaes dos estrumes\npachorrentamente\nacogulados e dos despejos que apodrecem\npelas ruas, custa a crr como a gentalha pollula,\ne como os consorcios fructificam em ninhadas\nde garotos; e parece  gente que um sopro qualquer\ndestruidor, de calamidade immensa, ir em breve\nprostrar esses enxames, sem que deixe de p um\ns vivente nos albergues. Puro engano: as\npovoaes\neternizam-se. No parecer de alguns investigadores,\nque taes exotismos interessam, se os miasmas\nputridos convidam as epidemias a entrar e a\nvindimar providencialmente as muitas vidas que superabundam,\nestes mesmos miasmas, sobrecarregados\nde vapores de ammoniaco, de exhalaes corrosivas\nde fermentos, se encarregam de ferir tambem\nmortalmente os virus morbidos, poupando o\nresto do povo. Chegamos ao facecioso paradoxo de\n[28]\nser na China a immundicie o purificador por excellencia,\num como que elixir de longa vida, indispensavel\na todas as familias, feito da mais estupenda\nalchimia de dejectos.\n\nConceda-se pois, por\nexcepo, a este bom povo\ncelestial, o capricho de lavar uma vez cada anno\no antro onde se abriga. Depois,\n ver a faina de collar pelas\nparedes, pelas portas, pelas janellas,\npapeis de bella cr escarlate,\ncom negras inscripes cabalisticas,\nque so votos de ventura e\nde riqueza, que so preces aos\ndeuses. E chega a occasio de se\nadornarem os altares, de se irem\ncomprar junquilhos em flor, que\nse dispem em vasos gentis com\nagua e seixos alvos, e assim vo\nenfeitar os aposentos, levando o\nvio e o perfume, por um dia, aos\nnegrumes das alcovas. No meio\ndo complicado rito das usanas,\nalgumas praticas enternecedoras, de ingenuidade\nprimitiva, interessam o curioso. Reparem por exemplo\nnas enormes celhas expostas pelos mercados,\nonde enxames de pequeninos peixes negros, carpas\n[29]\nbarbudas, estrebucham na gotta de agua do improvisado\ncaptiveiro; o povo compra-as, e vae lanal-as\nem seguida nas ribeiras, gosando na aco do\nresgate,\npor certo grata aos deuses, e que redundar\nem beneficios...\n\n\n\nA PRIMAVERA\n\n\n\na Camillo Pessanha\n\n\n\nHa alguns dias, na cidade\nde Kobe,poderia\nprecisar o dia, e quasi a\nhora, se tamanho rigorismo\nme exigissem,irrompeu\na Primavera. Irrompeu:\nno ha sombra de exagero\nno vocabulo. Irrompeu,\nsurgiu d'um pulo, fez\nexploso. N'este paiz do\nSol Nascente, onde o sol,\ne com elle todas as grandes\nforas naturaes, so\nainda uns selvagensse\n[31]\nassim posso expressar-meuns selvagens sem freio,\nsem noo das conveniencias, incapazes de se\napresentarem\nde visita, de luvas e casaca, n'uma crte\nqualquer da nossa Europa; n'este paiz do Sol Nascente,\nia eu dizendo, a creao inteira apostou, parece,\nem offerecer em cada dia uma surpresa, toda\nella exuberancias inauditas, espalhafatos unicos, repentismos\nnervosos, caprichos doidos, como se reunisse\nem si a quinta essencia da alma das creanas\ne a quinta essencia da alma das mulheres, a gargalhada,\na troa, emfim, motejadora de tudo quanto\n ordem, harmonia, contemporisadora lei das\ntransies.\n\n\nHontem, foi um inverno duro, gelido, vestido apenas\nd'uma ampla tunica de neve. Hoje, d'um salto,\no sol rompeu em quenturas amorosas, comearam\nde florir as arvores, e evolaram-se os insectos. Amanh,\nser o estio torrido, em brazas, como nem na\nChina, nem na Africa se sente. E assim corre o tempo,\nvam as horas; cada instante  um meteoro; e aqui\num tufo arranca os troncos, e alli a chuva torrencial\ninunda as varzeas, e alem um rio transborda do\nseu leito, e uma onda do largo afoga as aldeias, e\numa convulso subterranea abala o solo...\n\n\nO europeu, o pobre europeu das paizagens serenas,\nsoffre os choques d'esta natureza, por demais subversiva\n[32]\npara o seu espirito triste, meditativo e attribulado.\nOfferece-se-lhe um de dois caminhos a\nseguir: ou communga na vida japoneza, inicia-se nos\nseus segredos intimos, ama-a nas suas modalidades,\ne assim a existencia se lhe gasta, se consome rapida,\nesgazeada em admiraes, doidejando em vertigens;\nou se retrae, se isola, odeia a natureza que no\ncomprehende, odeia o exilio, vive de saudades da\npatria, entre as quatro paredes do seu lar, ou dos\nclubs cosmopolitas da colonia forasteira. No \npreciso\nmais para justificar o tique de loucura, facilmente\nperceptivel, da enorme maioria d'estes expatriados,\nhomens e mulheres, aps curta residencia\nno paiz japonez.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOra pois,dada esta concisa explicao\n gente\nincredula,ha alguns dias, na cidade de Kobe, irrompeu\na Primavera.\n\n\nPela noite velha, fra chegando uma brisa como\nque amorosa, acariciadora, perfumada. No silencio\ndas trevas, as carpas acordaram, n'um charco fronteiro\nao meu albergue; e estrabuchavam, e produziam\ndesusados ruidos, saltando fora d'agua, ardendo\nem cios, endemoninhadas. Quando rompeu o dia, e\nappareceu o sol, no se descreve o enlevo do bafo\n[33]\nmorno, embalsamado, genesiaco, que enchia o espao.\nO ceu tinha azues novos; cirros de paz pairavam\nnas alturas. A paizagem esverdera; esverdera\nda herva nova, que surgia, e das arvores velhas,\nque se coloriam. A nossa observao educa-se\nn'este meio em especialidades de minucia, abundando\npor toda a parte, em campos e jardins, as coniferas,\nde todas as frmas, de todas as grandezas;\nestas arvores nunca se desfolham, mas no inverno\ndescoloram-se, empallidecem como mulheres chloroticas,\nchegam a lembrar enfermos, chegam a lembrar\ncoisas mortas; depois, a primavera excita-lhes\na seiva, um verde intenso assoma-lhes s folhas, a\nvida recomea, doida, vo desabrochar flores em\nfria!...\n\n\nJ as ameixieiras se apresentam em galas de florescencia;\nos negros troncos rugosos e lavrados pela\nlepra dos lichens, sem uma folha sequer, cobrem-se\nagora de bastas cabelleiras, alvas ou rosadas, feitas\nde mil e mil florinhas presas aos galhos por minusculos\npenduculos. Vistas de longe, nos sitios onde\nabundam, fazem lembrar uma floresta de arvores\nseccas, envolvidas pelo fumo e pelas chammas d'uma\nqueimada devoradora. Em breve sero os \u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 25537 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Moraes, Wenceslau de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 20, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: Portuguese \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Moraes, Wenceslau de,1854-1929 \/ eBook \/ Portuguese","offer_id":43218726486173,"sku":"gb-25537-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/25537.jpg?v=1671502605"},{"product_id":"le-japon-gb-27313","title":"Le Japon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLe Japon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Japon prend peu de place dans les proccupations politiques de l'Europe, et cependant les\r\n  vnements qui se passent dans ce pays prsentent,  tous les points de vue, un intrt\r\n  considrable, soit qu'on envisage la question en elle-mme, soit qu'on l'examine dans ses\r\n  rapports avec l'Occident.\nC'est la prsence des trangers qui fit natre ces crises qui bouleversent aujourd'hui\r\n  l'empire du Soleil Naissant, et par eux l'lment de la civilisation occidentale est venue se\r\n  choquer contre l'autorit du pass et de la tradition. Pour chacun de ces deux principes\r\n  s'armrent des partisans dont les intrts taient depuis longtemps spars. Au nom du respect de\r\n  la tradition, la noblesse fodale vint se grouper autour du mikado, souverain incontest du pays.\r\n  Au nom de la pression des circonstances, le takoune prsente, ds le commencement de la lutte,\r\n  des observations  son souverain, en lui refusant son puissant concours contre les trangers, non\r\n  parce qu'il les aime et dsire servir leurs intrts, mais parce qu'il est oblig de reconnatre\r\n  leur puissance, et de tenir compte des canons qui garnissent leurs vaisseaux.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 27313 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Montblanc, Charles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 22, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Montblanc, Charles \/ eBook \/ French","offer_id":43218868306077,"sku":"gb-27313-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/27313.jpg?v=1671509058"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-japanese-people-gb-27604","title":"A History of the Japanese People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA History of the Japanese People\r - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the past three decades Japanese students have devoted much\r\nintelligent labour to collecting and collating the somewhat\r\ndisjointed fragments of their country's history. The task would have\r\nbeen practically impossible for foreign historiographers alone, but\r\nnow that the materials have been brought to light there is no\r\ninsuperable difficulty in making them available for purposes of joint\r\ninterpretation. That is all I have attempted to do in these pages,\r\nand I beg to solicit pardon for any defect they may be found to\r\ncontain.\n   I.       The Historiographer's Art in Old Japan\n   II.      Japanese Mythology\n   III.     Japanese Mythology (Continued)\n   IV.      Rationalization\n   V.       Origin of the Japanese Nation: Historical Evidences\nVI.      Origin of the Nation: Geographical and Archaeological\r\n\r\nRelics\n\n   VII.     Language and Physical Characteristics\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 27604 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Brinkley, F. (Frank) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 23, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Kikuchi, Dairoku, 1855-1917 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Brinkley, F. (Frank),1841-1912 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218923290781,"sku":"gb-27604-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/27604.jpg?v=1671510126"},{"product_id":"china-japan-and-the-u-s-a-gb-28393","title":"China, Japan and the U.S.A","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChina, Japan and the U.S.A.\r - Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe articles following are reprinted as they were\r\n\twritten in spite of the fact that any picture of contemporary\r\n\tevents is modified by subsequent increase\r\n\tof knowledge and by later events. In the\r\n\tmain, however, the writer would still stand by\r\n\twhat was said at the time. A few foot notes\r\n\thave been inserted where the text is likely to\r\n\tgive rise to misapprehensions. The date of\r\n\twriting has been retained as a guide to the reader.\nIt is three days easy journey from Japan to China. It is\r\n\tdoubtful whether anywhere in the world another journey\r\n\tof the same length brings with it such a complete change\r\n\tof political temper and belief. Certainly it is greater than the\r\n\talteration perceived in journeying directly from San Francisco\r\n\tto Shanghai. The difference is not one in customs and modes\r\n\tof life; that goes without saying. It concerns the ideas, beliefs\r\n\tand alleged information current about one and the same fact:\r\n\tthe status of Japan in the international world and especially\r\n\tits attitude toward China. One finds everywhere in Japan a\r\n\tfeeling of uncertainty, hesitation, even of weakness. There\r\n\tis a subtle nervous tension in the atmosphere as of a country\r\n\ton the verge of change but not knowing where the change will\r\n\ttake it. Liberalism is in the air, but genuine liberals are encompassed\r\n\twith all sorts of difficulties especially in combining\r\n\ttheir liberalism with the devotion to theocratic robes which\r\n\tthe imperialist militarists who rule Japan have so skilfully\r\n\tthrown about the Throne and the Government. But what one\r\n\tsenses in China from the first moment is the feeling of the all-pervading\r\n\tpower of Japan which is working as surely as fate\r\n\tto its unhesitating conclusionthe domination of Chinese politics\r\n\tand industry by Japan with a view to its final absorption.\r\n\tIt is not my object to analyze the realities of the situation\r\n\tor to inquire whether the universal feeling in China is a collective\r\n\thallucination or is grounded in fact. The phenomenon\r\n\tis worthy of record on its own account. Even if it be merely\r\n\tpsychological, it is a fact which must be reckoned with in both\r\n\tits Chinese and its Japanese aspects. In the first place,\r\n\tas to the differences in psychological atmosphere. Everybody\r\n\twho knows anything about Japan knows that it is the land of\r\n\treserves and reticences. The half-informed American will tell\r\n\tyou that this is put on for the misleading of foreigners. The\r\n\tinformed know that it is an attitude shown to foreigners only\r\n\tbecause it is deeply engrained in the moral and social tradition\r\n\tof Japan; and that, if anything, the Japanese are more likely\r\n\tto be communicativeabout many things at leastto a sympathetic\r\n\tforeigner, than to one another. The habit of reserve\r\n\tis so deeply embedded in all the etiquette, convention\r\n\tand daily ceremony of living, as well as in the ideals of strength\r\n\tof character, that only the Japanese who have subjected themselves\r\n\tto foreign influences escape itand many of them revert.\r\n\tTo put it mildly, the Japanese are not a loquacious\r\n\tpeople; they have the gift of doing rather than of gab.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28393 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dewey, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 23, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dewey, John,1859-1952 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219044466845,"sku":"gb-28393-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/28393.jpg?v=1671512964"},{"product_id":"the-empire-of-the-east-gb-28690","title":"The Empire of the East","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Empire of the East\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eON my return from another visit to Japan a few months\r\nago I found those persons in this country with whom\r\nI was brought into close association extremely curious and\r\nstrangely ignorant regarding that ancient Empire. Despite\r\nthe multitude of books which have of late years been published\r\nabout Japan and things Japanese a correct knowledge\r\nof the country and the people is, so far as I can judge,\r\naltogether lacking in England. Indeed the multiplicity of\r\nbooks may have something to do with that fact, as many\r\nof them have been written by persons whose knowledge,\r\nacquired in the course of a flying visit, was, to say the least,\r\nperfunctory, and who had no opportunities for viewing the\r\nlife of the people from within and forming a sound judgment\r\non many matters upon which the writers have\r\ndogmatically pronounced. I, accordingly, came to the\r\nconclusion not only that there was room for one more book\r\non Japan, but that another book was greatly neededa book\r\nnot technical, historical, abstruse or recondite, but a book\r\ndescribing in simple language Japan as it was, is, and will\r\nbe. This is the task I set before myself when I commenced\r\nto write this volume, and the reader must be the judge to\r\nwhat extent I have been successful in the accomplishment\r\n[vi]\r\nthereof. I have touched but lightly on the material\r\ndevelopment of the country of recent years. I know from\r\nexperience that though statistics are the fad of a few they\r\nare caviare to the great mass of the public. Nor have I\r\ndealt at all with politics or political parties in new Japan.\r\nIt is, I think, unfortunate that the Japanese people, in\r\nadopting or adapting English institutions, should have\r\nintroduced the political party system so much in evidence\r\nin Great Britain and other European countries. Whether\r\nthat system works well in the West, where it has been in\r\nexistence for centuries and is not always taken over-seriously\r\nby party politicians themselves, is a question\r\nupon which I shall express no opinion. But I think it is\r\nproblematical whether such a system is well adapted for\r\nan Oriental people, possessed of and permeated by an\r\nancient civilisationa people whose feelings, sentiments,\r\nmodes of thought, prejudices and passions are so essentially\r\ndifferent from those of Western nations. Be that\r\nas it may, Japanese politics find no place in this work.\nThe morality or otherwise of the Japanese is a matter\r\nwhich has been much discussed and written about. The\r\nviews of speakers and writers in regard thereto, so far as I\r\nhave been able to ascertain them, have been largely affected\r\nby their prejudices or the particular standpoint from which\r\nthey have regarded the matter. The result, in my opinion,\r\nhas been that an entirely erroneous conception of the\r\nwhole subject of Japanese morality has not only been\r\nformed but has been set forth in speech or writing, and a\r\ngrave injustice has been done to the Japanese in this\r\n[vii]\r\nmatter, to say nothing of the entirely false view of the whole\r\nquestion which has been promulgated. In this book I have\r\nendeavoured to deal with this thorny subject, so far as it\r\ncan be dealt with in a book, free from prejudice or preconceived\r\nideas of any kind. I have simply confined\r\nmyself to facts, and have endeavoured to represent the\r\nwhole matter as it appears to the Japanese and to morality\r\naccording to the Japanese standard.\nI have deemed it necessary to deal at some length\r\nwith the various phases of Japanese art, which it is no\r\nexaggeration to say has permeated the whole nation so\r\nthat the Japanese may truthfully be termed the most\r\nartistic people in the world. Of course it is impossible to\r\ndeal exhaustively in a work of this kind with Japanese art.\r\nI have, however, endeavoured to describe the principal art\r\nindustries of the country and to set forth what I may term\r\nthe catholicity of art in Japan. I have also dealt with the\r\nquestion how far art has been affected by the Europeanising\r\nof the nation which has taken place of recent years, and\r\nthe effect thereof.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28690 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 4, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Montgomery, H. B. 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At\r\nmany places of amusement Japanese houses of\r\nreal size have been exhibited, and the jargon of\r\nfashion for \"Japanese Art\" even reaches our\r\nchildren's ears.\nYet all these things seem dull and lifeless when\r\nthus severed from the quaint cheeriness of their\r\ntrue home. To those familiar with Japan, that\r\nbamboo fan-handle recalls its graceful grassy tree,\r\nthe thousand and one daily purposes for which\r\nbamboo wood serves. We see the open shop\r\nwhere squat the brown-faced artisans cleverly\r\ndividing into those slender divisions the fan-handle,[Pg xii]\r\nthe wood-block engraver's where some\r\ndozen men sit patiently chipping at their cherry-wood\r\nblocks, and the printer's where the coloring\r\narrangements seem so simple to those used to\r\nwestern machinery, but where the colors are so\r\nrich and true. We see the picture stuck on the\r\nfan frame with starch paste, and drying in the\r\nbrilliant summer sunlight. The designs recall\r\nvividly the life around, whether that life be the\r\nstage, the home, insects, birds, or flowers. We\r\nthink of halts at wayside inns, when bowing tea-house\r\ngirls at once proffer these fans to hot and\r\ntired guests.\nThe tonsured oblique-eyed doll suggests the\r\nfestival of similarly oblique-eyed little girls on the\r\n3rd of March. Then dolls of every degree obtain\r\nfor a day \"Dolls' Rights.\" In every Japanese\r\nhousehold all the dolls of the present and previous\r\ngenerations are, on that festival, set out to\r\nbest advantage. Beside them are sweets, green-speckled\r\nrice cake, and daintily gilt and lacquered\r\ndolls' utensils. For some time previous, to meet\r\nthe increased demand, the doll shopman has been\r\nvery busy. He sits before a straw-holder into\r\nwhich he can readily stick, to dry, the wooden\r\nsupports of the plaster dolls' heads he is painting,\r\nas he takes first one and then another to give\r\nartistic touches to their glowing cheeks or little\r\ntongue. That dolly that seems but \"so odd\" to[Pg xiii]\r\nPolly or Maggie is there the cherished darling of\r\nits little owner. It passes half its day tied on to\r\nher back, peeping companionably its head over\r\nher shoulder. At night it is lovingly sheltered\r\nunder the green mosquito curtains, and provided\r\nwith a toy wooden pillow.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28979 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 28, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin,1846-1883 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219112034461,"sku":"gb-28979-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/28979.jpg?v=1671515094"},{"product_id":"considerations-generales-sur-l-etat-actuel-du-japon-gb-29758","title":"Considérations générales sur l'état actuel du Japon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConsidérations générales sur l'état actuel du Japon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Les tudes gographiques empruntent un intrt spcial  la facilit si\r\ngrande des communications actuelles. Cette facilit nous a tellement\r\nfamiliariss avec les produits des pays les plus loigns, que nous ne\r\nnous tonnons plus de les voir  chaque instant autour de nous, dans nos\r\nvtements, sur nos tables, dans nos habitations, partout \r\nl'talage de nos boutiques. Par cela mme, il ne nous est plus\r\npermis d'ignorer aucune contre du monde, lorsque toutes concourent\r\npresque simultanment  la satisfaction de nos besoins. \n Ce courant cre forcment entre les socits humaines un lien de\r\nsolidarit que toutes reconnaissent et devant lequel s'est en\r\ndernier lieu inclin le Japon. Depuis une dizaine d'annes, ce pays\r\nest sorti de son mystrieux isolement. Des lignes de bateaux  vapeur le\r\nrelient aujourd'hui  l'Europe, et Marseille n'en est\r\nplus spar que d'un trajet de cinquante jours. A l'extrmit\r\nde cette route, nous pntrons dans l'empire du Soleil-Naissant,\r\ndont l'ensemble gographique nous est parfaitement retrac dans\r\nl'excellente carte due au travail de M. V. A. Malte-Brun,\r\nl'honorable secrtaire gnral de notre Commission.\r\n\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29758 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Montblanc, Charles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 22, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Montblanc, Charles \/ eBook \/ French","offer_id":43219207356573,"sku":"gb-29758-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29758.jpg?v=1671517988"},{"product_id":"japan-gb-29798","title":"Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nThe outrages which now succeeded each other\nwith terrible frequency were not confined to the\nnative members of the opposing parties. Foreigners,\nwho were so essentially the cause of the political\ndisturbances in Japan, were particularly exposed to\nattacks. On the 14th of January, 1861, Mr. Heusken,\nthe secretary and interpreter of the American\nlegation, when riding home at night from the Prussian\nlegation in Yedo, was attacked by armed\nassassins and mortally wounded. The object of this\nmurder is supposed to have been the desire of one\nof the ministers of foreign affairs to take revenge on\nMr. Heusken,281\nfor his activity in promoting foreign\nintercourse.\n\n\nThe weakness and the fears of the government\n[pg 336]\nwere shown by the warning, which they sent to the\nforeign ministers to avoid attending the funeral of\nMr. Heusken, lest further outrages might be committed.\nThey did attend, however, and no disturbances\noccurred. It only remains to mention that\nMr. Harris subsequently made an arrangement with\nthe government for the payment of an indemnity282\nof $10,000 to the mother of Mr. Heusken, who was\nthen living at Amsterdam in Holland.\n\n\nThe next circumstance which awakened universal\nattention was an attack made on the British legation,\non the night of the 5th of July, 1861. At this time\nthe British minister occupied as a legation the buildings\nof the temple Tozenji, situated at Takanawa in\nthe city of Yedo. It was guarded by a company of\nJapanese troops, to whom the government had entrusted\nits protection. Mr. Alcock had just returned\nby an overland journey from Nagasaki, and with a\nnumber of other Englishmen was domiciled in the\nlegation. The attacking party consisted of fourteen\nronins belonging to the Mito clan, who had\nbanded themselves together to take vengeance on the accursed\nforeigners. Several of the guards were\nkilled, and Mr. Oliphant,283 the secretary of legation,\nand Mr. Morrison, H. B. M's consul at Nagasaki,\nwere severely wounded. On one of the party who\nwas captured was found a paper,284 which set forth\n[pg 337]\nthe object of the attack and the names of the fourteen\nronins who had conspired for its\naccomplishment.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29798 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Murray, David \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 25, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Murray, David,1830-1905 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219213353117,"sku":"gb-29798-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29798.jpg?v=1671518143"},{"product_id":"japan-gb-31030","title":"Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapan - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1867\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZoo gij, lezer, een inwoner zijt der residentie of van eene onzer\r\ngroote steden, dan zult ge u voorzeker nog wel den indruk herinneren,\r\nvoor weinige jaren door de verschijning van een gezantschap uit Japan\r\nin ons midden te weeg gebracht. Gij zult het u wel herinneren, hoe deze\r\nkleine, niet zeer sierlijk gekleede mannen met hun taankleurig gelaat\r\nen hunne schitterend zwarte oogen, niet slechts, waar zij zich\r\nvertoonden, de voorwerpen waren der algemeene nieuwsgierigheid; maar\r\nook hoe zij de helden waren van den dag, de gevierden in de kringen der\r\nfashionable wereld, welkom geheeten in elken salon. En, zoo ge nader\r\nmet hen in aanraking zijt gekomen, zult ge ook weten, dat die\r\nvreemdelingen inderdaad op meer dan bloote nieuwsgierigheid, dat zij op\r\nbelangstelling aanspraak mochten maken; dan zult ge u spoedig hebben\r\novertuigd, dat gij lieden van veelzijdige ontwikkeling en fijne\r\nbeschaving voor u hadt, die, in meer dan een opzicht, voor ons,\r\nkinderen van het overbeschaafde Westen, niet behoefden te wijken. Maar,\r\nhetzij ge slechts met de schare de onbekende gasten uit de verte hebt\r\naangestaard, hetzij ge toegang hebt gevonden tot hun kring: dit durf ik\r\nwel vertrouwen, [2]dat de indruk dezer nieuwe\r\nverschijning bij u de begeerte heeft opgewekt, om iets meer te weten\r\nvan het verre land, waaruit deze menschen tot ons waren overgekomen:\r\neene begeerte, sedert door menige omstandigheid nog versterkt en\r\nverlevendigd.Welnu, ik kom u uitnoodigen tot een tocht naar\r\nJapan, u en allen, die belang stellen in een land en een volk dat om\r\nvele redenen onze belangstelling verdient, al ware het alleen omdat\r\nwij, Nederlanders, eeuwen lang tot dat land in eene geheel bijzondere\r\nbetrekking hebben gestaan.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 31030 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Humbert, Aimé \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 20, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: Dutch \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Humbert, Aimé,1819-1900 \/ eBook \/ Dutch","offer_id":43219546800285,"sku":"gb-31030-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31030.jpg?v=1671528730"},{"product_id":"letters-from-china-and-japan-gb-31043","title":"Letters from China and Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLetters from China and Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Dewey, Professor of Philosophy in\r\n\t\tColumbia University, and his wife, Alice C.\r\n\t\tDewey, who wrote the letters reproduced in\r\n\t\tthis book, left the United States early in\r\n\t\t1919 for a trip to Japan. The trip was\r\n\t\teagerly embarked on, as they had desired\r\n\t\tfor many years to see at least something of\r\n\t\tthe Eastern Hemisphere. The journey was\r\n\t\tto be solely for pleasure, but just before\r\n\t\ttheir departure from San Francisco, Professor\r\n\t\tDewey was invited, by cable, to lecture\r\n\t\tat the Imperial University at Tokyo,\r\n\t\tand later at a number of other points in the\r\n\t\tJapanese Empire. They traveled and\r\n\t\tvisited in Japan for some three to four\r\n\t\tmonths and in May, after a most happy experience,\r\n\t\tmade doubly so by the unexpected\r\n\t\tcourtesies extended them, they decided to\r\n\t\tgo on to China, at least for a few weeks,\r\n\t\tbefore returning to the United States.\nThe fascination of the struggle going on\r\n\t\tin China for a unified and independent\r\n\t\tdemocracy caused them to alter their plan\r\n\t\tto return to the United States in the summer\r\n\t\tof 1919. Professor Dewey applied to\r\n\t\tColumbia University for a years leave of\r\n\t\tabsence, which was granted, and with Mrs.\r\n\t\tDewey, is still in China. Both are lecturing\r\n\t\tand conferring, endeavoring to take some\r\n\t\tof the story of a Western Democracy to an\r\n\t\tAncient Empire, and in turn are enjoying\r\n\t\tan experience, which, as the letters indicate,\r\n\t\tthey value as a great enrichment of their\r\n\t\town lives. The letters were written to their\r\n\t\tchildren in America, without thought of\r\n\t\ttheir ever appearing in print.\nEvelyn Dewey.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 31043 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 22, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Dewey, John, 1859-1952 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dewey, Evelyn, 1889- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219548864669,"sku":"gb-31043-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31043.jpg?v=1671528782"},{"product_id":"historic-tales-the-romance-of-reality-vol-12-of-15-japanese-and-chinese-gb-31571","title":"Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistoric Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 1 in Japan is the same date as 660 B.C.\r\nof the Christian era, so that Japan is now in its\r\ntwenty-sixth century. Then everything began. Before\r\nthat date all is mystery and mythology. After\r\nthat date there is something resembling history,\r\nthough in the early times it is an odd mixture of\r\nhistory and fable. As for the gods of ancient Japan,\r\nthey were many in number, and strange stories are\r\ntold of their doings. Of the early men of the island\r\nkingdom we know very little. When the ancestors\r\nof the present Japanese arrived there they found\r\nthe islands occupied by a race of savages, a people\r\nthickly covered with hair, and different in looks\r\nfrom all the other inhabitants of Asia. These in\r\ntime were conquered, and only a few of them now\r\nremain,known as Ainos, and dwelling in the island\r\nof Yezo.\nIn the Japanese year 1 appeared a conqueror,\r\nJimmu Tenn by name, the first of the mikados or\r\nemperors. He was descended from the goddess of\r\nthe Sun, and made his home at the foot of Kirishima,\r\na famous mountain in the island of Kiushiu,\r\nthe most southerly of the four large islands of Japan.\r\nAs to the smaller islands of that anchored empire,\r\nit may be well to say that they form a vast\r\nmultitude of all shapes and sizes, being in all nearly[Pg 6]\r\nfour thousand in number. The Sea of Japan is\r\ntruly a sea of islands.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 31571 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morris, Charles \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 9, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Morris, Charles,1833-1922 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219655327901,"sku":"gb-31571-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/31571.jpg?v=1671530719"},{"product_id":"japan-a-record-in-colour-gb-32086","title":"Japan: A Record in Colour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapan: A Record in Colour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book I endeavour to present, with whatever skill\r\nof penmanship I may possess, my fathers impressions\r\nof Japan. I trust that they will not lose in force and\r\nvigour in that they are closely intermingled with my own\r\nimpressions, which were none the less vivid because they\r\nwere those of a child,for it was as a child, keenly\r\ninterested in and enjoying all I saw, that I passed,\r\nfour or five years ago, through that lovely flower-land\r\nof the Far East, which my father has here so charmingly\r\nmemorialised in colour.\nI always agree with that man who said, Let me\r\nmake the nations songs and I care not who frames her\r\nlaws, or words to that effect, for, in my opinion, nothing\r\nso well indicates national character or so keenly accentuates\r\nthe difference between individuals and nations\r\nas the way in which they spend their leisure hours;\r\nand the theatres of Japan are thoroughly typical of the\r\npeoples character. It would be utterly impossible for\r\nthe Japanese to keep art out of their lives. It creeps into\r\neverything, and is as the very air they breathe. Art with\r\nthem is not only a conscious effort to achieve the beautiful,\r\nbut also an instinctive expression of inherited taste.\r\nIt beautifies their homes and pervades their gardens;\r\nand perhaps one never realises this all-dominating power\r\nmore fully than when in a Japanese theatre, which is,\r\ninvariably, a veritable temple of art. But here with us\r\nin the West it is different. We have no art, and our\r\nmethods merely lead us to deception, while we do not\r\nbegin to understand those few great truths which form\r\n4\r\nthe basis of oriental philosophy, and without which perfection\r\nin the dramatic art is impossible. For example,\r\nthe philosophy of balance, of which the Japanese are\r\npast masters, is to us unknown. The fact that Nature\r\nis commonplace, thereby forming a background, as it\r\nwere, for Tragedy and the spirit of life to work, has\r\nnever occurred to us; while the background of our\r\nWestern play is not by any means a plan created by a\r\ntrue artist upon which to display the dramatic picture\r\nas it is in Japan, but simply a background to advertise\r\nthe stage-managers imitative talent. The result is, of\r\ncourse, that the acting and the environment are at\r\nvariance instead of being in harmonic unity. But we\r\nin the West have not time to think of vague things,\r\nsuch as balance and breadth and the creating of pictures.\r\nWhat we want is realism; we want a sky to look like a\r\nreal sky, and the moon in it to look like a real moon,\r\neven if it travels by clock-work, as it has been known to\r\ndo occasionally. And so real is this clock-work moon\r\nthat we are deceived into imagining that it is the moon,\r\nthe actual moon. But the deception is not pleasant; in\r\nfact, it almost gives you indigestion to see a moon, and\r\nsuch a moon, careering over the whole sky in half an\r\nhour. In Japan they would not occupy themselves with\r\nmaking you believe that a moon on the stage was a real\r\nonethey would consider such false realism as a bit of\r\ngross degradationbut they would take the greatest\r\npossible pains as to the proper placing of that palpably\r\npasteboard moon of theirs, even if they had to hold it\r\nup in the sky by the aid of a broom-stick.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 32086 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Menpes, Dorothy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 22, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Menpes, Dorothy \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219751731357,"sku":"gb-32086-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/32086.jpg?v=1671532617"},{"product_id":"japanese-girls-and-women-gb-32449","title":"Japanese Girls and Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Girls and Women - Revised and Enlarged Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt seems necessary for a new author to\r\ngive some excuse for her boldness in offering\r\nto the public another volume upon a\r\nsubject already so well written up as Japan.\r\nIn a field occupied by Griffis, Morse, Greey,\r\nLowell, and Rein, what unexplored corner\r\ncan a woman hope to enter? This is the\r\nquestion that will be asked, and that accordingly\r\nthe author must answer.\nWhile Japan as a whole has been closely\r\nstudied, and while much and varied information\r\nhas been gathered about the country\r\nand its people, one half of the population\r\nhas been left entirely unnoticed,\r\npassed over with brief mention, or altogether\r\nmisunderstood. It is of this neglected\r\nhalf that I have written, in the hope\r\nthat the whole fabric of Japanese social[viii]\r\nlife will be better comprehended when the\r\nwomen of the country, and so the homes\r\nthat they make, are better known and\r\nunderstood.\nThe reason why Japanese home-life is\r\nso little understood by foreigners, even by\r\nthose who have lived long in Japan, is\r\nthat the Japanese, under an appearance of\r\nfrankness and candor, hides an impenetrable\r\nreserve in regard to all those personal\r\nconcerns which he believes are not\r\nin the remotest degree the concerns of his\r\nforeign guest. Only life in the home itself\r\ncan show what a Japanese home may be;\r\nand only by intimate associationsuch as\r\nno foreign man can ever hope to gainwith\r\nthe Japanese ladies themselves can\r\nmuch be learned of the thoughts and daily\r\nlives of the best Japanese women.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 32449 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bacon, Alice Mabel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 20, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bacon, Alice Mabel,1858-1918 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219825295517,"sku":"gb-32449-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/32449.jpg?v=1671533923"},{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-japan-gb-33131","title":"The Spirit of Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spirit of Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am glad to have this opportunity once\r\nmore of speaking to you before I leave Japan.\r\nMy stay here has been so short that one may\r\nthink I have not earned my right to speak to\r\nyou about anything concerning your country. I\r\nfeel sure that I shall be told, that I am idealising\r\ncertain aspects, while leaving others unnoticed,\r\nand that there are chances of my disillusionment,\r\nif I remain here for long. For I have known\r\nforeigners, whose long experience has made\r\nthem doubtful about your moral qualifications,even\r\nof your full efficiency in modern equipments\r\nof progress.\nBut I am not going to be brow-beaten by\r\nthe authority of long experience, which is likely\r\nto be an experience of blindness carried through\r\nlong years. I have known such instances in my\r\nown country. The mental sense, by the help of\r\n[Pg 2]\r\nwhich we feel the spirit of a people, is like the\r\nsense of sight, or of touch,it is a natural gift.\r\nIt finds its objects, not by analysis, but by\r\ndirect apprehension. Those who have not this\r\nvision, merely see events and facts, and not their\r\ninner association. Those who have no ear for\r\nmusic, hear sounds, but not the song. 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Very often it is mistakes\r\nthat require longer time to develop their tangles,\r\nwhile the right answer comes promptly.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 33131 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Tagore, Rabindranath \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 10, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tagore, Rabindranath,1861-1941 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219892502685,"sku":"gb-33131-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/33131.jpg?v=1671536375"},{"product_id":"zen-culture-gb-34324","title":"Zen Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZen Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout\r\nthe entire Far East of China, Korea, and Japan, we see the system of a unique\r\nculture which originated in the sixth century, reached its meridian in the\r\nthirteenth and fourteenth centuries and began to decline in the seventeenth\r\ncentury, but which is still kept up in Japan even in this day of materialism\r\nand mechanization. It is called Zen Culture.\nZen History, Haiku, Zen,\r\nCeramics, Archery, Landscape Garden, Stone Garden, Ink Landscape, Zen\r\nArchitecture, Sword, Katana, No Theater, Noh Theater, Japanese Tea Ceremony,\r\nTea Ceremony, Flower arranging, Ikebana, Zen Ceramic Art, Raku, Shino,\r\nRyoanji-ji \nAMS Press,\r\nInc.: Two three-line poems from page 75\r\nof Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan; Doubleday \u0026amp; Company, Inc.: Eight\r\nHaiku poems from An Introduction to Haiku by Harold G. Henderson. Copyright  1958 by Harold G. Henderson; The\r\nHokuseido Press Co. Ltd.: Poem on page\r\n35 of The Kobin Waka-Shu, translated by H. H. Honda. Poem on page 82 of History of Haiku, Vol. II by R.\r\nH. Blyth; Penguin Books Ltd.: A tanka from 'Ise Monogatari' by Ariwara\r\nNarihira. Reprinted from page 71\r\nof The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, translated by Geoffrey Bownas and\r\nAnthony Thwaite (1964). Copyright\r\n 1974 by Geoffrey Bownas and\r\nAnthony Thwaite; Shambala Publications, Inc. (Berkeley, California): Poems on\r\npages 15 and 18 of The Sutra of Hui-Neng; Stanford University Press: Poem on\r\npage 91 of An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry by Earl Miner; Charles E.\r\nTuttle Company, Inc.: Three lines of verse from page 130 of The Noh Drama; University of California Press:\r\nFour-line Haiku poem from page 104\r\nof The Year of My Life: A Translation of Issa's Oraga Haru, translated by\r\nNobuyuki Yuasa. 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Those of Lafcadio Hearn will\r\nalways be remembered for the poetry he brought in them to bear upon the\r\npoetic aspects of the country and the people. Buddhism had a fascination\r\nfor him, as it had for Mr. Fielding in his remarkable book on the\r\npractice of this religion in Burma.[1] There is also the work of Captain\r\nBrinkley, to which we are largely indebted.\nThese Lectures by a son of the land, delivered at the University of\r\nLondon, are compendious and explicit in a degree that enables us to form\r\na summary of much that has been otherwise partially obscure, so that we\r\nget nearer to the secret of this singular race than we have had the\r\nchance of doing before. He traces the course of Confucianism, Laoism,\r\nShintoism, in the instruction it has given to his countrymen for the\r\npractice of virtue, as to which Lao-tze informs us with a piece of\r\n'Chinese metaphysics' that can be had without having recourse to the\r\ndictionary: 'Superior virtue is non-virtue. Therefore it has virtue.\r\nInferior virtue never loses sight of virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.\r\nSuperior virtue is non-assertive and without pretension. Inferior virtue\r\nasserts and makes pretensions.' It is childishly subtle and easy to be\r\nunderstood of a young people in whose minds Buddhism and Shintoism\r\nformed a part.\nThe Japanese have had the advantage of possessing a native Nobility who\r\nwere true nobles, not invaders and subjugators. They were, in the\r\nhighest sense, men of honor to whom, before the time of this dreadful\r\nwar, Hara-kiri was an imperative resource, under the smallest suspicion\r\nof disgrace. 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To understand Japan it is also\nneedful to know the lives and characteristics\nof the working classes. 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Sabres au flanc, l'ventail haut, il va.\nLa cordelire rouge et le gland carlate\nCoupent l'armure sombre, et, sur l'paule, clate\nLe blason de Hizen et de Tokugawa.\n\nCe beau guerrier vtu de lames et de plaques\nSous le bronze, la soie et les brillantes laques\nSemble un crustac noir, gigantesque et vermeil.\n\nIl l'a vue. Il sourit dans la barbe du masque,\nEt son pas plus htif fait reluire au soleil\nLes deux antennes d'or qui tremblent  son casque.\n\nJOS-MARIA DE HEREDIA.\n\nIn the following pages I have depicted certain Japanese ideals and\r\nnotions, as well as some historical facts which seemed likely to\r\ninterest those of the sympathetic Western public who may be inclined to\r\nstudy the mental side of Japan.\nThe dialogues are founded upon actual conversations, not indeed always\r\nin exactly the same phraseology, nor under exactly the same\r\ncircumstances, but something very like. The questions put into the\r\nmouths of the characters in the book are the kind of questions which are\r\nbeing constantly put to me, and my answers are always on the same lines;\r\nso that my readers may regard the book as a serious treatise so far as\r\nthe materials are concerned. This is the reason why I have written this\r\nbook in a light, conversational style, and not in the form of an\r\nordinary critical or expository treatise. 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If we do not take\r\ninto account the serviceableness of detached historical\r\ndata or groups of data, that is to say,\r\nwhen we exclude those cases where the historical\r\ndata of Japan are studied not for the sake of\r\nunderstanding Japan herself, but in behalf of some\r\nother scientific purposes, then it can be said that\r\nJapanese history will serve foreigners in two principal\r\nand distinct ways. Firstly, it will interest\r\nthem as the history of one special nation among\r\nmany in the world. Secondly, it may be useful\r\nto historical study in general, seeing that it can\r\nbe regarded as constituting in itself a microcosm\r\nof miniature of the history of the world manifested\r\nin that of a small nation. The former\r\npoint is that which attracts most foreigners by\r\nthe strength of novelty, while the latter will be\r\nnone the less suggestive to comprehensive and\r\n[Pg2]\r\nreflective historians. 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Huydecoper van\r\nMaarseveen, het op zijn verzoek welwillend ter leen verstrekt had.\r\nZEd.Geb. heeft, na mededeeling van den belangrijken inhoud, de uitgave\r\nter liefde der wetenschap willen vergunnen, en daardoor allen, die\r\nbelang stellen in de ontdekkingen der Hollandsche zeevarenden en in de\r\ngeographische wetenschap, ten zeerste aan zich verpligt. Van heeler\r\nharte brengen wij ZEd.Geb. daarvoor onzen warmen dank. Het Koninklijk\r\nInstituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indi heeft\r\nhet zich voorts eene aangename taak geacht dit Reisverhaal onder hare\r\nWerken op te nemen, terwijl de Bijlagen, ter nadere toelichting\r\nhieraan toegevoegd, het belang dezer uitgave verhoogen.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 39146 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Coen, Cornelis Janszoon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 14, 2012 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: Dutch \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Siebold, Philipp Franz von, 1796-1866, Vries, Maarten Gerritszoon \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Leupe, Pieter Arend, 1808-1881 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Coen, Cornelis Janszoon \/ eBook \/ Dutch","offer_id":43220800077981,"sku":"gb-39146-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/39146.jpg?v=1671560612"},{"product_id":"la-civilisation-japonaise-gb-40516","title":"La civilisation japonaise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLa civilisation japonaise\r - conférences faites à l'école spéciale des langues orientales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONFRENCES\n\r\nFAITES\n\r\nA LCOLE SPCIALE DES LANGUES ORIENTALES\n\r\nPAR\n\nL  O N  D E  R O S N Y\n\n\n\r\nPARIS\n\r\nERNEST LEROUX, DITEUR\nLIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIT ASIATIQUE DE PARIS\r\nDE LCOLE DES LANGUES ORIENTALES VIVANTES, ETC.\r\n28, RUE BONAPARTE, 28\r\n\r\n1883\n\n\n\nE\r\nvolume fait partie de la srie de publications que jai entreprises\r\npour lusage des personnes qui veulent tudier la langue et la\r\nlittrature japonaise. Il se compose de douze confrences[1] prpares\r\nconformment au programme des examens de lcole spciale des Langues\r\nOrientales. Jai essay dy runir, sous une forme ncessairement trs\r\nsuccincte, les principales donnes ethnographiques, gographiques et\r\nhistoriques qui sont indispensables  quiconque est appel  rsider au\r\nJapon ou  se trouver en contact avec les indignes de ce pays.\nOutre les faits relatifs aux insulaires de lextrme Orient, jai tenu\r\n donner  mes lves quelques notions relatives  lhistoire et  la\r\nlittrature de la Chine, parce que cest de ce pays que le Japon tire sa\r\nculture intellectuelle et un nombre considrable de mots de sa langue.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 40516 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Rosny, Léon de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 16, 2012 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: French \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rosny, Léon de,1837-1914 \/ eBook \/ French","offer_id":43221227831453,"sku":"gb-40516-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/40516.jpg?v=1671586772"},{"product_id":"the-spell-of-japan-gb-41722","title":"The Spell of Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Spell of Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe term \"Spell,\" as applied to a series of\r\nbooks treating of various countries seems instantly\r\nto conjure up before the vision the most\r\nromantic and attractive episodes in their history,\r\nthe most picturesque and fascinating aspects\r\nof their geography, the most alluring\r\nqualities of their inhabitants. Under this\r\nample and elastic term, Romance has been able\r\nto weave its iridescent glamour, if possible enhancing\r\nthe charm of the reality, like a delicate\r\nveil over a mountain view.\nThe fortunate authors have been enabled to\r\ntake journeys as it were on Solomon's magic\r\ncarpet, the aerial vehicle of the Imagination,\r\nand to depict ideal conditions based nevertheless\r\non solid foundations of Truth.\nOccasionally Fate seems to idealize reality:\r\na novelist could hardly conceive a more fortunate\r\nsetting for a romance than the Court\r\nof an Oriental Potentate, or find a happier\r\n[pgviii]\r\nsource of vivid experiences than would spring\r\nfrom the position of an open-eyed American\r\nwoman suddenly transported to such a scene\r\nas the wife of an ambassador sent to some exotic\r\nEmpire. 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Therefore\r\nI have been led to believe that there is a\r\nplace for this book.\r\n\n\r\nI have written for the common people and\r\nhence have tried to give the subject a plain,\r\npopular treatment.  There has been no attempt\r\nat exhaustive discussion, but great pains have\r\nbeen taken to make the hook reliable and accurate.\r\n\n\r\nIn the preparation of this little book I have\r\nconsulted freely the following works in English:\r\n\"Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan\";\r\nfiles of the \"Japan Mail\"; \"Transactions of the\r\n{4}\r\nOsaka Conference, 1882\"; Rein's \"Japan\";\r\nGriffis's \"Mikado's Empire\"; Griffis's\r\n\"Religions of Japan\"; Chamberlain's \"Handbook of\r\nThings Japanese\"; Miss Bacon's \"Japanese Girls\r\nand Women\"; Dr. Lawrence's \"Modern\r\nMissions in the East\"; \"Report of the World's\r\nMissionary Conference, London, 1888\"; and\r\nreports of the various missionary societies\r\noperating in Japan. In Japanese I have consulted some\r\nnative historians and moral and religious\r\nwritersespecially in the preparation of the chapters on\r\nHistory, Morality, and Religions.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 42304 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Peery, R. B. (Rufus Benton) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 11, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Peery, R. B. 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Every achievement, great or small, is\r\nstamped with the hall-mark of duty, of unfaltering\r\ndevotion to the service of the nation and to the\r\ninterests of humanity.\nA copious and facile writer, he has left singularly\r\nlittle in the way of personal history. The only\r\njournal he seems ever to have kept was consigned\r\nby him to oblivion, a few early dates and remarks\r\nhaving alone been rescued. When in recent years\r\nhe was approached by friends on the subject of auto-biography,\r\nhe was wont to reply, \"My life is in my\r\nwork; by that I am content to be remembered.\"\r\nWe must needs therefore take him at his word and\r\njudge by the fruit what was the nature of the tree.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 42732 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Michie, Alexander \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 18, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Michie, Alexander,1833-1902 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221377646749,"sku":"gb-42732-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/42732.jpg?v=1671594972"},{"product_id":"an-artist-s-letters-from-japan-gb-43160","title":"An Artist's Letters from Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Artist's Letters from Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy Dear Adams: Without you I should not have\r\nseen the place, without you I should not have seen the\r\nthings of which these notes are impressions. If anything\r\nworth repeating has been said by me in these letters, it\r\nhas probably come from you, or has been suggested by\r\nbeing with youperhaps even in the way of contradiction.\r\nAnd you may be amused by the lighter talk of the\r\nartist that merely describes appearances, or covers them\r\nwith a tissue of dreams. And you alone will know how\r\nmuch has been withheld that might have been indiscreetly\r\nsaid.\nAnd you too, Okakura San: I wish to put your\r\nname before these notes, written at the time when I first\r\nmet you, because the memories of your talks are connected\r\nwith my liking of your country and of its story,\r\nand because for a time you were Japan to me. I hope,\r\ntoo, that some thoughts of yours will be detected in what\r\nI write, as a stream runs through grasshidden, perhaps,\r\nbut always there. We are separated by many\r\nthings besides distance, but you know that the blossoms\r\nscattered by the waters of the torrent shall meet at its\r\nend.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 43160 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: La Farge, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 8, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"La Farge, John,1835-1910 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221399306397,"sku":"gb-43160-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/43160.jpg?v=1671596538"},{"product_id":"a-diplomat-in-japan-gb-43541","title":"A Diplomat in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Diplomat in Japan\r - The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first portion of this book was written at intervals\r\nbetween 1885 and 1887, during my tenure of the post\r\nof Her Majesty's minister at Bangkok. I had but\r\nrecently left Japan after a residence extending, with two\r\nseasons of home leave, from September 1862 to the last days\r\nof December 1882, and my recollection of what had occurred\r\nduring any part of those twenty years was still quite fresh.\r\nA diary kept almost uninterruptedly from the day I quitted\r\nhome in November 1861 constituted the foundation, while my\r\nmemory enabled me to supply additional details. It had\r\nnever been my purpose to relate my diplomatic experiences\r\nin different parts of the world, which came finally to be spread\r\nover a period of altogether forty-five years, and I therefore\r\nconfined myself to one of the most interesting episodes in\r\nwhich I have been concerned. This comprised the series of\r\nevents that culminated in the restoration of the direct rule of\r\nthe ancient line of sovereigns of Japan which had remained in\r\nabeyance for over six hundred years. Such a change involved\r\nthe substitution of the comparatively modern city of Yedo,\r\nunder the name of Tki, for the more ancient Kito, which\r\nhad already become the capital long before Japan was heard\r\nof in the western world.\nWhen I departed from Siam in 1887 I laid the unfinished\r\nmanuscript aside, and did not look at it again until September\r\n1919, when some of my younger relations, to whom I had\r\nshown it, suggested that it ought to be completed. 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I beg your pardonI mean in\r\nthe Eastern world, for she lives far away across\r\nthe Pacific, on one of the beautiful islands of\r\nJapan.\nLotus Blossom is very pretty. She has a\r\nround face, with a clear, yellow skin, and her\r\nteeth are like little pearls. Her black hair\r\nis cut square across the forehead and braided\r\nbehind. It is never done up in curl-papers\r\nor twisted over a hot iron; the little girl's\r\nmamma would think that very untidy.\nLotus Blossom does not smile very often,\r\nyet she is always happy. She does not remember\r\ncrying once in her life. Why should[10]\r\nshe cry? Papa and mamma are always kind\r\nand ready to play with her. She is never\r\nsent to bed alone in the dark, for she goes\r\nto sleep, and gets up in the morning when\r\nher parents do. She does not play so hard\r\nas to get tired out and cross with everybody.\r\nShe takes everything quietly, just as the big\r\nfolks do, and is never in a hurry. Her playmates\r\ndo not say unkind words to make her\r\nsad, for the children of Japan are taught to\r\nbe polite above everything else. Why, I\r\nhave heard that once upon a time one little\r\nyellow boy so far forgot himself as to call a\r\nlady bad names. His parents were terribly\r\nshocked. They felt that they had been disgraced,\r\nand at once sent for a policeman to go\r\nto the lady's house and ask for their child's\r\npardon. As for him! well, he was severely\r\npunished in a way you will hear about later\r\non in my story.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 43833 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 28, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Bridgman, L. J. 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My naturally\r\nroving instincts warmly supported the scheme, and\r\nmy love of the East gave the prospect the warmth\r\nand colour which only personal delight can lend to\r\nany place. The generous interest and help of the\r\nRoyal Society in my scientific projects made this long\r\nand expensive journey possible. The influence of\r\nthis learned body with our Government and with that\r\nof Japan secured me every help and courtesy during\r\nmy stay in the country, without which no result\r\nwould have been obtainable. The scientific results,\r\nwhich most fortunately seem to be justifying the\r\nexpedition, are being published in suitable places;\r\nthere is no technical science in this journal. It is a\r\nrecord of some of the human experiences through\r\nwhich a scientist goes in search of facts lying beyond\r\neveryday human experience.\nAfter the first month in the country, during which\r\nit was impossible to travel, as I did, in the wilds\r\nwithout an interpreter, I made it my business to\r\nlearn enough of the spoken language to go about\r\nalone. I also tried to come as close as possible to\r\nthe Japanese people, although when I look back on\r\nmy attempts I see how often my impatience with[xii]\r\nwhat seemed needless delay, with an unknown code\r\nof honour, and with trifling inconveniences in non-essentials,\r\nmust have acted as a hindrance to free\r\ncommunication with a people so profoundly patient.\r\nYet in many ways I had wonderful opportunities of\r\ntouching the living reality in the Japanese; opportunities\r\nso exceptional that it is to my lasting shame\r\nthat my stock of patience and sympathy was not\r\nalways equal to them. It is hard when one is young,\r\nand chances to be hungry and tired, to realise that it\r\nis not of ones momentary comforts one has to think,\r\nbut of the vastly greater and deeper purpose that\r\naccidentally brought weariness in its train. It is\r\ntrue that from an ordinary standpoint there are\r\nmany things in Japan which are exasperating to a\r\nWesterner, but that was no excuse for me. Let me\r\nquote in illustration a small incident that I have\r\never since regretted. On page 43 you will find the\r\naccount of my involuntary visit to the courteous\r\nprincipal of a College when I was really bound for\r\na coal mine. This gentleman asked me to give a\r\nlecture to his young men, and I refused. It is true\r\nthat I was really anxious to go directly to that mine,\r\nthat it would upset my plans if I were to be at all\r\ndelayed, and that at the moment the disturbance of\r\nthose plans seemed a serious matter. But, nevertheless,\r\nI was the first European woman that many of\r\nthe people there had seen, and the first scientific\r\nwoman that any of them had seen or heard of. Their\r\ncuriosity and interest about me was as natural as my\r\ncuriosity and interest about their coal mine, but I\r\ngratified my own curiosity and not theirs. They\r\nmay well be led to conclude from the only example\r\nin their experience that European scientists are in\r\na hurry, and are selfish and lacking in personal[xiii]\r\nsympathy. It would be practically impossible for\r\nthem to realise how many other claims had been\r\nmade on that hasty young scientist who visited them,\r\nthey would only feel that in place of the human\r\ninterest and understanding which might have been\r\nshown, there was a blank wall of refusal. I tried to\r\nexplain that Science is a hard taskmaster, but what\r\ngood are explanations?\nIn my deep desire to understand, and come in\r\nclose touch with the Japanese, I was handicapped, as\r\nevery European must be, by our national traditions.\r\nIn England we read that clever book Bushido, and\r\nfeel that the old codes of honour among the Japanese\r\nare not so far from our own but that they can be\r\nbridged by a little sympathy. Before living in Japan\r\none cannot realise that that book, like other volumes\r\nwritten by Japanese with a knowledge of our traditions,\r\nis a translation of their traditions in the terms\r\nof ours. The most faithful translation can never\r\ncatch quite the spirit of the original. Hence in Japan\r\nI had to unlearn what I thought I knew before, as\r\nwell as to try to learn the truth. To help me in this\r\nI had the real friendship of several noble Japanese.\r\nMy work, too, gave me many opportunities, for it\r\nbrought me into touch with a large number of people\r\nof many different types, from the peasants in the\r\nwilds to the higher officials in Tokio. Added to\r\nthese was the fact that I was a woman. Therefore I\r\nsaw the Japanese at their best, and with the men of\r\nscience there was possible an unadulterated, delightful\r\nfriendship for which no European man coming to\r\nJapan could get quite the counterpart; for there are\r\nno Japanese women scientists. And although many\r\nliterary and other people hold scientists up to scorn\r\nin their relation to daily life, it is in truth only from[xiv]\r\nthem that one can get an all-satisfying comradeship\r\nand comprehension. There is further a quality in\r\na pure and intellectual friendship which comes to\r\nit only when the friends are man and woman, a\r\nquality not necessarily better than, but different from\r\nother friendships, and one which reveals much of the\r\nindividual character and the national character of\r\nthose who form the tie. The man and woman who\r\nare true friends give each other of their very best.\r\nAs the first woman scientist from the West to work\r\nin the University with the Japanese men of science, I\r\nshould have been wanting indeed if there did not\r\ncome to me much that in the end seemed to reveal\r\nsome of the very life-secrets of the nation.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 44475 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stopes, Marie Carmichael \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 20, 2013 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stopes, Marie Carmichael,1880-1958 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221473427613,"sku":"gb-44475-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/44475.jpg?v=1671601625"},{"product_id":"the-englishman-in-china-during-the-victorian-era-vol-2-of-2-gb-44548","title":"The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2)\r - As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe index to this book contains links to Volume I of this two-volume work.\r\n  The links are designed to work when the book is read on line.  If you want to download\r\n  both volumes and use the index, you will need to change the links to point to the file name of Volume I\r\n  on your own device.\n\nChap. xxiii.: Tsze-kung asked, saying, \"Is there one word which\r\nmay serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?\" The Master\r\nsaid, \"Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not\r\nwant done to yourself, do not do to others.\"\n\n\r\nCommodore Perry's expedition, 1853-54Townsend HarrisCount PoutiatineLord\r\nElginThe treaties of 1858The solidarity of Western\r\nPowersThe practical attitude of the JapaneseTheir yielding to\r\ncircumstancesThe condition of the countryThe character of the\r\npeopleNagasakiThe DutchTheir two hundred years' imprisonment.\r\n\n\r\nA mystery hung over the island empire, which had\r\nbeen sealed against foreign intercourse for two hundred\r\nyears, and its mere seclusion, apart from the weird\r\nromance that gilded such fragments of its history\r\nas were known, invested the efforts to reopen the\r\ncountry with a romantic charm. 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These\r\nislandsincluding Formosa and the Pescadores ceded by China\r\nin 1895, and the southern half of Sakhalin, acquired from Russia in\r\n1905lie between the parallels of 50 56' and 21 48' north latitude,\r\nand the longitude of their extreme eastern and western points\r\nare 156 32' and 119 20', respectively, east of Greenwich. The\r\nempire thus covers 29 8' of latitude and 37 12' of longitude. On\r\nthe east it faces the Pacific; on the southwest it looks across the\r\nwaters of the China Sea to the mainland of China; on the northwest\r\nthe Sea of Japan and Gulf of Tartary separate it from Korea and\r\nSiberia. The fiftieth parallel divides the Japanese half of Sakhalin\r\nfrom the northern or Russian half, and the Kurile Strait intercepts\r\nthe Chishima or Kurile group of islands on the north from the Russian\r\npeninsula of Kamchatka.\nThe whole group includes five and one-half large islands and\r\nnearly six hundred islets. The large island lying in the center constitutes\r\nthe mainland; the island directly to the north is Hokkaid\r\n(Yezo or Ezo), and that to the south, Kiush; on the southwest\r\nof the mainland and east of Kiush is Shikoku; and stretching in\r\na northwesterly direction from Hokkaid are the Chishima or\r\nKuriles, while the chain of the Riuki (Loochoo) Archipelago leads\r\nto Formosa. Floating, as it were, in the Sea of Japan are the\r\nislets of Sado, Oki, and Tsushima, the last lying only about\r\nfifty miles from the southern coast of Korea. Scattered in the\r\nPacific Ocean, at a distance of nearly 500 miles from the southwest\r\ncoast of the mainland, lies the Ogasawara group (Bonins).\r\nTo these must now be added the recently ceded southern half of the\r\nIsland of Sakhalin.\nOwing to the insular nature of the country, the area of the\r\nempire, exclusive of the half of Sakhalin, which is perhaps as much\r\nas 12,000 square miles, little exceeds 161,000 square miles, or[xii]\r\nslightly larger than the area of the British Isles. More than half of\r\nthis superficies is comprised in the main island. The coastline\r\nof the fourteen larger islands and archipelagoes, again\r\nexcepting Sakhalin, stretches to a length of 13,500 miles. Little\r\nindented, the coast along the Sea of Japan offers few bays or promontories;\r\nbut the Pacific and the China Sea coasts are broken\r\ninto innumerable capes and inlets, and abound in good harbors.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 45645 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Asakawa, Kan'ichi \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 14, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Asakawa, Kan'ichi, 1873-1948 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Asakawa, Kan'ichi,1873-1948 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221581987997,"sku":"gb-45645-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/45645.jpg?v=1671606887"},{"product_id":"diaries-of-court-ladies-of-old-japan-gb-47151","title":"Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending\r\noften for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on\r\nthe suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word,\r\nhave presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not\r\nperfectly overcome.\nIzumi Shikibu's Diary is written with extreme delicacy of treatment.\r\nEnglish words and thought seem too downright a medium into which to\r\nrender these evanescent, half-expressed sentences and poemsvague as\r\nthe misty mountain scenery of her country, with no pronouns at all, and\r\nwithout verb inflections. The shy reserve of the lady's written record\r\nhas induced the use of the third person as the best means of suggesting\r\nit.\nOf the \"Sarashina Diary\" there exist a few manuscript copies, and\r\nthree or four publications of the text. Some of them are confused and\r\nunreadably incoherent. The present translation was done by comparing\r\nall the texts accessible, and is especially founded on the connected\r\ntext by Mr. Sakine, professor of the Girls' Higher Normal School,\r\nTokio, published by Meiji Shoin, Itchome Nishiki-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokio.\r\nAs far as possible the exact meaning has been adhered to, and the\r\nwords chosen to express it have been kept absolutely simple, without\r\ncomplexity of thought, for such is the vocabulary in which it was\r\nwritten. Sometimes the diarist uses the present tense, sometimes the\r\ntext seems reminiscent. The words in square brackets have been inserted\r\nby the translators to complete the sense in English of sentences\r\nwhich literally rendered do not carry with them the suggestion of the\r\nJapanese text.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 47151 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Izumi Shikibu, 974?- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 19, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Murasaki Shikibu, 978?-, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Doi, Kochi, 1886-, Omori, Annie Shepley \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Izumi Shikibu, 974?- \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43221711978653,"sku":"gb-47151-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/47151.jpg?v=1671612399"},{"product_id":"reise-uber-indien-und-china-nach-japan-gb-47260","title":"Reise über Indien und China nach Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReise über Indien und China nach Japan.\r - Tagebuch mit Erfahrungen, um zu überseeischen Reisen und Unternehmungen anzuregen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrotzdem,\r\ndass wir in einem Zeitalter leben, wo Elektricitt und\r\nDampf auch die weitesten Entfernungen um ein Bedeutendes\r\nverringern und ungeachtet der stetig fortschreitenden Civilisation,\r\nwelche die meisten der frher bestandenen Beschwerlichkeiten\r\nvon den Reisenden ferne hlt und dieselben mit allem nur denkbaren\r\nComfort umgibt, so klingt dennoch, besonders in unserem schnen\r\nOesterreich-Ungarn, das Project, eine Weltreise zu machen, fast noch\r\nwie ein waghalsiges Unternehmen, welches nur in der Vollkraft der\r\nJahre und mit dem Aufwande von schier unerschwinglich grossen Geldmitteln\r\nder Verwirklichung zugefhrt werden kann.\nAls in mir selbst, angeregt durch das eingehende Studium der\r\nhchst interessanten und sehr lehrreichen Reisebeschreibung Sr. k.u.k.\r\nHoheit des durchlauchtigsten Herrn Erzherzogs Franz Ferdinand, der\r\nWunsch immer lebhafter wurde, mir auch einmal die grosse weite Welt\r\netwas anzusehen, so entschloss ich mich endlich nach reiflicher Erwgung,\r\nungeachtet meines vorgerckten Alters, dennoch diesen meinen Herzenswunsch\r\nthatschlich durchzufhren.\nUnd wie sehr belohnten mich die Flle von schnen, unvergesslichen\r\nEindrcken, sowie die Menge von werthvollen Erfahrungen, die\r\nich auf meiner Reise gesammelt habe, fr einen Entschluss, den ich\r\nspterhin auch keinen Augenblick zu bereuen Ursache hatte!\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 47260 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Eisenstein, Richard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2014 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: German \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Eisenstein, Richard \/ eBook \/ German","offer_id":43221719253149,"sku":"gb-47260-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/47260.jpg?v=1671612781"},{"product_id":"newfoundland-to-cochin-china-gb-51280","title":"Newfoundland to Cochin China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewfoundland to Cochin China - By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe favourable reception vouchsafed to \"40,000\r\nMiles over Land and Water\" has induced me to\r\nyield to the kind wishes of many Friends and\r\nConstituents, and to record the impressions of my\r\nsecond circle round the world.\nLand in sight when I awake at 5 a.m., a grey\r\nstreak across the oval of the port. With what\r\nintense satisfaction we gaze on the line of barren\r\nrock, which has a suspicion of green horizon on\r\nthe summit of the grey cliffs, only those can\r\npicture who have been at sea for some time.\nPresently we glide past Cape Race, with its neat\r\nsignal station on the cliffs, and know that in a\r\nfew minutes the arrival of our ship, the Nova\r\nScotian, will be signalled at St. John's. We see\r\na few fish-curing sheds on the tiny bays of yellow\r\nsand, and some white specks that represent\r\ncottages. They are dreary little settlements, and\r\nnear them the fishing-boats pass us, returning home[2]\r\nafter their rough night's work, for this is the\r\ninhospitable coast of Newfoundland, the Premier\r\nColony of England.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 51280 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Vincent, Ethel Gwendoline \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 23, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Vincent, Ethel Gwendoline,1861- \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43225553141917,"sku":"gb-51280-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/51280.jpg?v=1671854622"},{"product_id":"japanese-homes-and-their-surroundings-gb-52868","title":"Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJapanese Homes and Their Surroundings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin twenty\n        years there has gradually appeared in our country a variety of\n        Japanese objects conspicuous for their novelty and beauty,lacquers,\n        pottery and porcelain, forms in wood and metal, curious shaped boxes,\n        quaint ivory carvings, fabrics in cloth and paper, and a number of\n        other objects as perplexing in their purpose as the inscriptions\n        which they often bore. Most of these presented technicalities in\n        their work as enigmatical as were their designs, strange caprices in\n        their ornamentation which, though violating our hitherto recognized\n        proprieties of decoration, surprised and yet delighted us. The\n        utility of many of the objects we were at loss to understand; yet\n        somehow they gradually found lodgment in our rooms, even displacing\n        certain other objects which we had been wont to regard as decorative,\n        and our rooms looked all the prettier for their substitution. We\n        found it difficult to formulate the principles upon which such art\n        was based, and yet were compelled to recognize its merit. Violations\n        of perspective, and colors in juxtaposition or coalescing that before\n        we had regarded as inharmonious, were continually reminding us of\n        Japan and her curious people. Slowly our methods of decoration became\n        imbued with these ways so new to us, and yet so many centuries old to\n        the people among whom these arts had originated. Gradually yet\n        surely, these arts, at first so little understood, [pg xxvi] modified our own methods\n        of ornamentation, until frescos wall-papers, wood-work and carpets,\n        dishes and table-cloth metal work and book-covers, Christmas cards\n        and even railroad advertisements were decorated, modelled, and\n        designed after Japanese style.\nIt was not to be\n        wondered at that many of our best artists,men like Coleman, Vedder,\n        Lafarge, and others,had long fore recognized the transcendent merit\n        of Japanese decorative art. It was however somewhat remarkable that\n        the public at large should come so universally to recognize it, and\n        in so short a time. Not only our own commercial nation, but\n        art-loving France, musical Germany, and even conservative England\n        yielded to this invasion. Not that new designs were evolved by us; on\n        the contrary, we were content to adopt Japanese designs outright,\n        oftentimes with a mixture of incongruities that would have driven\n        Japanese decorator stark mad. Designs appropriate for the metal\n        mounting of a sword blazed out on our ceilings; motives fror a heavy\n        bronze formed the theme for the decoration of friable pottery; and\n        suggestions from light crape were woven into hot carpets to be\n        trodden upon. Even with this mongrel admixture, it was a relief by\n        any means to have driven out of our dwelling the nightmares and\n        horrors of design we had before endured so meekly,such objects, for\n        example, as a child in dead brass, kneeling in perpetual supplication\n        on a dead brass cushion, while adroitly balancing on its head a\n        receptacle for kerosene oil; and a whole regiment of shapes equally\n        monstrous. Our walls no longer assailed us with designs that wearied\n        our eyes and exasperated our brains by their inanities. We were no\n        longer doomed to wipe our feet on cupids, horns of plenty, restless\n        tigers, or scrolls of architectural magnitudes. Under the benign\n        influence of this new spirit it came to be realized that it was not\n        always necessary to tear a flower in bits to recognize its decorative\n        value; and that the simplest objects in Naturea spray of\n        [pg xxvii] bamboo, a\n        pine cone, a cherry blossomin the right\n        place were quite sufficient to satisfy our craving for\n        the beautiful.\nThe Japanese\n        exhibit at the Centennial exposition in Philadelphia came to us as a\n        new revelation; and the charming onslaught of that unrivalled display\n        completed the victory. It was then that the Japanese craze took firm\n        hold of us. Books on Japan rapidly multiplied, especially books on\n        decorative art; but it was found that such rare art could be properly\n        represented only in the most costly fashion, and with plates of\n        marvellous elaboration. What the Japanese were able to do with their\n        primitive methods of block-printing and a few colors, required the\n        highest genius of our artists and chromo-lithographers; and even then\n        the subtile spirit which the artist sought for could not be\n        caught.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 52868 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morse, Edward Sylvester \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 21, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Morse, Edward Sylvester,1838-1925 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43227136524445,"sku":"gb-52868-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/52868.jpg?v=1671946673"},{"product_id":"samurai-trails-a-chronicle-of-wanderings-on-the-japanese-high-road-gb-53327","title":"Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was spring and it was Spain. Sunset\r\nbrought the white-haired custodian of the Court\r\nof the Lions to the balcony overhanging my fountain.\r\nHis blue coat bespoke officialdom but his\r\nAndalusian lisp veiled this suggestion of compulsion.\r\nHis wishes for my evenings happiness,\r\nnevertheless, were to be interpreted as a request\r\nfor my going. The Alhambra had to be locked up\r\nfor the night.\nI was lying outstretched on the stones of Lindaroxas\r\nCourt with my head against a pillar.\r\nThe last light of the April sun had scaled the\r\nwalls and was losing itself among the top-most\r\nbobbing oranges of Lindaroxas tree. To dream\r\nthere must be to have ones dreams come true,\r\nsome inheritance from Moorish alchemy.\nDespite the setting, I was dreaming nothing\r\nof the Alhambra, not even of Lindaroxa. I was\r\nthinking of a friend of irresponsible imagination\r\nbut of otherwise responsibility. I was wondering[viii]\r\nwhere he could be. On the previous summer we\r\nhad walked the highroads of England and I had\r\nfound him a most satisfying disputatious companion\r\nof enquiring mind. We had talked somewhat\r\nof a similar wandering in Japan, a vagabondage\r\nfree from cicerones and away from the show\r\nplaces, but although we had treated this variety\r\nof imagining with due respect, we had never an\r\nidea of transmuting it into action.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 53327 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Kirtland, Lucian Swift \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 20, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kirtland, Lucian Swift,1881-1965 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43231066816669,"sku":"gb-53327-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/53327.jpg?v=1672067130"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-indian-revolt-and-of-the-expeditions-to-persia-china-and-japan-1856-7-8-gb-53360","title":"The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nScarcely had England\nrecovered from the excitement\nattendant on the war\nwith Russia; scarcely had\nshe counted the cost, provided\nfor the expenditure,\nreprobated the blunderings,\nmourned over the\nsufferings; scarcely had\nshe struck a balance between\nthe mortifying incapacity\nof some of her\nchildren, and the Christian heroism of otherswhen\nshe was called upon anew to unsheath\nthe sword, and to wage war, not against an\nautocrat on this side of the Caspian, but against\nsome of the most ancient nations in the world.\nWithin a few months, almost within a few\nweeks, China, Persia, and India appeared in\nbattle-array against herthey being the injurers\nor the injured, according to the bias of mens\njudgments on the matter. It may almost be\nsaid that five hundred millions of human beings\nbecame her enemies at once: there are at\nthe very least this number of inhabitants in\nthe three great Asiatic empires; and against all,\nproclamations were issued and armaments fitted\nout. Whether the people, the millions, sided more\n2with her or with their own rulers, is a question\nthat must be settled in relation to each of those\nempires separately; but true it is that the small\narmy of England was called upon suddenly to\nrender services in Asia, so many and varied,\nin regions so widely separated, and so far distant\nfrom home, that a power of mobility scarcely\nless than ubiquity, aided by a strength of\nendurance almost more than mortalcould have\nbrought that small force up to a level with the\nduties required of it. Considering how small a\nspace a month is in the life of a nation, we may\nindeed say that this great Oriental outbreak was\nnearly simultaneous in the three regions of Asia.\nIt was in October 1856 that the long-continued\nbickerings between the British and the Chinese at\nCanton broke out into a flame, and led to the\ndespatch of military and naval forces from England.\nIt was while the British admiral was actually\nengaged in bombarding Canton that the governor-general\nof India, acting as viceroy of the Queen\nof England, declared war against the Shah of\nPersia for an infringement of treaty relating to\nthe city of Herat. And lastly, it was while two\nBritish armaments were engaged in those two\nregions of warfare, that disobedience and disbanding\nbegan in India, the initial steps to the most\nformidable military Revolt, perhaps, the world has\never seen.\nThe theologian sees, or thinks he sees, the finger\nof God, the avenging rod of an All-ruling Providence,\nin these scenes of blood-shedding: a punishment\non England for not having Christianised the\nnatives of the East to the full extent of her power.\nThe soldier insists that, as we gained our influence\nin the East mainly by the sword, by the sword we\nmust keep it: permitting no disobedience to our\nmilitary rule, but at the same time offending as\nlittle as possible against the prejudices of faith\nand caste among the natives. The politician\nsmitten with Russo-phobia, deeply imbued with\nthe notion, whether well or ill founded, that\nthe Muscovite aims at universal dominion in\nEurope and Asia, seeks for evidences of the czars\nintrigues at Pekin, Teheran, and Delhi. The\npartisan, thinking more of the ins and outs of\nofficial life, than of Asia, points triumphantly to\nthe dogma that if his party had been in power, no\none of these three Oriental wars would have\ncome upon England. The merchant, believing\nthat individual interest lies at the bottom of\nall national welfare, tells us that railways and\ncotton plantations would be better for India than\nmilitary stations; and that diplomatic piques\nat Canton and at Teheran ought not to be\nallowed to drive us into hostility with nations\nwho might be advantageous customers for our\nwares. But while the theologian, the soldier, the\npolitician, the partisan, and the merchant are thus\nrushing to a demonstration, each of his favourite\ntheory, without waiting for the evidence which\ncan only by degrees be collected, England, as a\nnation, has had to bear up against the storm as\nbest she could. Not even one short twelvemonth\nof peace was vouchsafed to her. The same year,\n1856, that marked the closing scenes of one war,\nwitnessed the commencement of two others;\nwhile the materials for a fourth war were at the\nsame time fermenting, unknown to those whose\nduty it was to watch symptoms.\nFew things in the history of our empire are\nmore astonishing than the social explosion in\nIndia, taken in connection with the positive\ndeclarations of official men. Historical parallels\nhave often been pointed out, striking and instructive;\nbut here we have a historical contradiction.\nAt the time when the plenipotentiaries of seven\nEuropean empires and kingdoms were discussing\nat Paris the bases for a European peace, the\nMarquis of Dalhousie was penning an account of\nIndia, in the state to which Britain had brought\nit. A statesman of high ability, and of unquestioned\nearnestness of purpose, he evidently felt a\npride in the work he had achieved as governor-general\nof India; he thought he had laid the\nfoundation for a great future; and he claimed\ncredit for England, not only in respect to what she\nhad done, but also for the motives that had\ndictated her Indian policy. It was in the early\npart of 1848 that this nobleman went out to the\nEast; it was in 1856 that he yielded the reins of\npower to Viscount Canning; and shortly before his\ndeparture from Calcutta he wrote a minute or\nnarrative, formally addressed to the East India\nCompany, but intended for his fellow-countrymen\nat large, giving an account of his stewardship.\nRemembering that that minute was written in\nMarch 1856, and that the Revolt commenced in\nJanuary 1857, it becomes very important to\nknow, from the lips or the pen of the marquis\nhimself, what he believed to be the actual condition\nof the Anglo-Indian Empire when he left\nit. The document in question is worth more,\nfor our present purpose, than any formal history\nor description of India; for it shews not only\nthe sum-total of power and prosperity in 1848,\nbut the additions made to that sum year after\nyear till 1856. A parliamentary paper of fifty\nfolio pages need not and cannot be reproduced\nhere; but its substance may be rendered intelligible\nin a few paragraphs. This we will attempt\nat once, as a peculiarly fitting introduction to the\nmain object of the present work; for it shews how\nlittle the Revolt was expected by him who was\nregarded as the centre of knowledge and influence\nin India. The marquis said: The time has nearly\ncome when my administration of the government\nof India, prolonged through more than eight years,\nwill reach its final close. It would seem that some\nfew hours may be profitably devoted to a short\nreview of those eventful years; not for the purpose\nof justifying disputed measures, or of setting forth\na retrospective defence of the policy which may,\non every several occasion, have been adopted; but\nfor the purpose of recalling the political events\nthat have occurred, the measures that have been\n3taken, and the progress that has been made, during\nthe career of the administration which is about to\nclose. I enter on that review with the single hope\nthat the Honourable Court of Directors may derive\nfrom the retrospect some degree of satisfaction\nwith the past, and a still larger measure of encouragement\nfor the future. The words we have italicised\nare very remarkable, read by the light so soon and\nso calamitously to be afforded.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 53360 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dodd, George \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 24, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dodd, George,1808-1881 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43231069241501,"sku":"gb-53360-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/53360.jpg?v=1672067244"},{"product_id":"an-english-girl-in-japan-gb-54591","title":"An English Girl in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn English Girl in Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following sketches of life in Japan and the\nvoyage there and back are taken from a diary which\nI kept during my travels.\nAs Japan and its wonderful little people have\ncome so much before the world during the last\nfew years, and especially at this time are one of the\nchief factors in the crisis in the Far East, I thought\nthat these reminiscences and anecdotes taken from\nreal life might be of interest.\nI am indebted to the editors of the Cornhill,\nSketch, Sunday, and the Buenos Aires Standard for\nthe reproduction of some of the following sketches.\n1904.\nI start on my travels--A fair Theosophist--Life on an\nAmerican liner--Arrival at New York--Delmonicos--The\nHotel Waldorf--Niagara Falls--Across the Lakes--The\nprairies--A quiet Sunday.\n\nThe visit to the Far East,\nwhere my father had business\nin Japan, was taken\nwhen I was only eighteen.\nBeing an only child, I had\nbeen his constant companion\nsince the death of\nmy mother nine years previously.\nI was never sent to school, and, after a\nsuccession of governesses, my education was put\ninto the hands of the old bachelor Rector of our\nparish, whose ideas as to what a girl ought to know\nwere somewhat peculiar. However, in other ways\n2I had more practical knowledge of life than was\nusual for one of my age, as my father discussed\nsubjects of all kinds with me freely; and I grew up\nto take interest in topics of the day, in animal life\nof all kinds, and in my garden, of which I was\nvery proud.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 54591 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bennett, Ella M. Hart \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 23, 2017 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bennett, Ella M. 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