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Common terms and phrases
1st cl 2d cl American artistic Atami beautiful boiled bronze Buddha Buddhist called carved cent charm China Chinese coast color comp copper cryptomerias custom daimyōs decorated dragon Emperor Empire English entrance excellent fare fish flowers foreign garden geisha gold Gov't Guidebook hills houses Hyōgo Ikao Imperial inns Japan Japanese jinriki jujutsu Kaisha Kamakura Karuizawa known Kobe Korea Kwannon Kyōto Kyūshū lacquer latter mausolea Mikado Museum Nagasaki native Nikkō Nippon Ōsaka Pacific painted picturesque places popular ports pron provinces rice road Romaji roof season Shiba Park Shikoku Shinto ships shōgun Shōji shrine side silver sometimes stands station stone stranger summer tea-houses temple tickets tion Tokugawa Tokugawa Shogunate Tōkyō tourists town traveler trees usually viâ wood Yedo Yezo Yokohama
Popular passages
Page ccxvii - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page cxcii - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Page cclxxxiii - It is agreed that if at any future day the government of Japan shall grant to any other nation or nations, privileges and advantages which are not herein granted to the United States and the citizens thereof, these same privileges and advantages shall be granted likewise to the United States and to the citizens thereof, without any consultation or delay.
Page cclxxxiii - Whenever ships of the United States are thrown or wrecked on the coast of Japan, the Japanese vessels will assist them, and carry their crews to Simoda, or Hakodade, and hand them over to their countrymen appointed to receive them...
Page clxvii - Bowing once more, the speaker allowed his upper garments to slip down to his girdle, and remained naked to the waist. Carefully, according to custom, he tucked his sleeves under his knees to prevent himself from falling backward ; for a noble Japanese gentleman should die falling forwards.
Page 1 - Japanese, however, were not to be cheated out of a ride, and as they were unable to reduce themselves to the capacity of the inside of the carriage, they betook themselves to the roof. It was a spectacle not a little ludicrous to behold a dignified Mandarin whirling around the circular road at the rate of twenty miles an hour, with his loose robes flying in the wind.
Page cclxxxiii - ARTICLE V. Shipwrecked men and other citizens of the United States, temporarily living at Simoda and Hakodade, shall not be subject to such restrictions and confinement as the Dutch and Chinese are at Nagasaki, but shall be free at Simoda to go where they please within the limits of seven Japanese miles (or...
Page cclxxxiv - Japan, and by the citizens and subjects of each respective power; and it is to be ratified and approved by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the august sovereign of Japan, and the ratification shall be exchanged within eighteen months from the date of the signature thereof, or sooner if practicable.
Page cclxxxiii - VII. — It is agreed that ships of the United States resorting to the ports •open to them shall be permitted to exchange gold and silver coin and articles of goods for other articles of goods, under such regulations as shall be temporarily established by the Japanese government for that purpose.
Page cclxxxiii - The port of Simoda in the principality of Idzu, and the port of Hakodade in the principality of Matsmai, are granted by the Japanese as ports for the reception of American ships, where they can be supplied with wood, water, provisions and coal, and other articles their necessities may require, as far as the Japanese have them.