Category: Travel Writing
The utter strangeness of feeling which came over me when, in May of 1892, I first landed in Japan, will never be repeated by any experience of travel in the future amidst other scenes, no matter how wholly new they may chance to be. Between Vancouver, so like one of our own We...
The utter strangeness of feeling which came over me when, in May of 1892, I first landed in Japan, will never be repeated by any experience of travel in the future amidst other...
2. CHAPTER II DOWN THE KATSURA-GAWAAt four o’clock in the morning of the second day after my visit to the Imperial Diet in the Spring of 1892, I arrived at the station of Kyoto,--for more than a thousand years th...
3. CHAPTER III CLIMBING ASAMA-YAMABetween a series of addresses which I had been giving in his church, in early July of 1892, in Tokyo, and the opening of work at the summer-school at Hakoné, Mr. T. Yokoi and I...
4. CHAPTER IV THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT HAKONÉOn my return from the excursion to Asama-yama, after a single night spent in Tokyo, I went up into the Hakoné Mountains to attend the Summer School of missionaries and Christian...
5. CHAPTER V JAPANESE AUDIENCESAudiences in Japan differ, as they do everywhere, in dependence on the social classes which compose them, their culture, varying points of view; and their more immediate or remo...
6. CHAPTER VI GARDENS AND GARDEN PARTIESTo understand thoroughly and appreciate justly the theory and history of the art of landscape and other gardening in Japan would require the study of a life-time. It is doubtful...
7. CHAPTER VII AT THE THEATREIn Japan, as in most other highly civilised nations, the origin and earliest developments of the art of dramatic representation are involved in much obscurity. But, according to...
8. CHAPTER VIII THE NO, OR JAPANESE MIRACLE-PLAYThe comparison of the Japanese dramatic performance which bears the name of “Nō” to the miracle-plays of Mediæval Europe is by no means appropriate throughout. Both, indeed, dea...
9. CHAPTER IX IKEGAMI AND JAPANESE BUDDHISMIt is nearly seven hundred years since the man, known to us of to-day as Nichiren or “Sun Lotus,” was born in the obscure and small village of Kominato, Japan. While his doctrin...
10. CHAPTER X HIKONÉ AND ITS PATRIOT MARTYRAmong the feudal towns of Japan which can boast of a fine castle still standing, and of an illustrious lord as its former occupant, there are few that can rival Hikoné. Pictures...
11. CHAPTER XI HIRO-MURA, THE HOME OF “A LIVING GODAmong the more startling but characteristic of the sketches of “Old Japan,” as drawn by the skilful pen of Lafcadio Hearn, there is perhaps no one which has excited a wider inte...
12. CHAPTER XII COURT FUNCTIONS AND IMPERIAL AUDIENCESEverything important connected with the Imperial Court of Japan is regulated by law in the most careful manner. These regulations include, not only the Peerage of all ranks, but...