639　Faulds, Henry　(1843-1930)
Nine years in Nipon.　1888.

NINE YEARS IN NIPON, SKETCHES OF JAPANESE LIFE AND MANNERS, BY HENRY FAULDS, L. F. P. S. Surgeon of Tsukiji Hospital, Tokio; Member of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Boston, CUPPLES & HURD, 94 BOYLSTON STREET, 1888.
xii p., p. [9]-304, [1] leaf of plates. 21 cm.

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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.—Introductory.
The Land—Its Contour—The Four Great Islands—Inland Sea—Rivers and Canals—Coast—Lighthouses—Harbours—The Black Stream—Climate—Flora and Fauna—Races.　9
CHAPTER II.—First Impressions of Yokohama.
Tropical Fruits and Icy Decks—An Economical Lighthouse—Japanese Horror of Paint—Human Vultures—Yokohama and Its People—A Mushroom Settlement—Bird's-eye View—No Loafers—Human Hansoms—Building Stone—Straw Clothing—Tribute to Tootsicums—A Motley Crowd.　25
CHAPTER III.—A Run on the Tokio Railway.
Granny and the Engine—A Solid Road—Lady Smokers—Paddy Fields and Egrets—Fuji, the Peerless Mountain—A Clerical Cyclist—Quiet Resting Places—An Unpicturesque Metropolis—Silent Streets—Musical Groans.　37
CHAPTER IV.—Street Scenes.
Shadow Pictures—Street Names—AEsthetic Mud-pies—Kite Flying—A Hint for Arctic Explorers—Fishy Conduct of an English Professor—The Queen's English—A Japanese Crowd—A Baby Cook Shop.　46
CHAPTER V.—Life in Tokio.
New Friends—Sir Happy Parkes—Mine Inn and its Master—A Hyper-Calvinistic Parrot—Plague of Frogs and Students—New Mode of Running a Restaurant—The Great Workman and his Little Ways—Charm against Leaks—Pic-nic and Fireworks—A New Mode of Signalling—Charm for Finding Drowned Bodies—A Japanese Tower of Siloam—Christmas in the Far East.　62
CHAPTER VI.—A Consultation in the Hills.
A Rembrandtesque Scene—Novel Style of Drag—Daybreak on the Plains—A Remorseful Knight—Wayside Tea-houses—A Formidable Ferry—Buddha in Bronze—Presbyterian Church in the Hills—Dining in Public—A Doctor of the Old School—Scotch Service amongst Silk—Utility of Yawning.　76
CHAPTER VII.—A Consultation in the Hills (Continued).
A Charming Bedroom—Landscape Gardening in Miniature—Duck's Eggs and Duty—Some World-forgotten Ones—Doctors sometimes differ—A Hint for Pious Busy-bodies—Religious Radishes—Tincture of Snake—Rays of Buddha—Midnight in a Forest— Resources of Civilization—A Suspicious Case—Toddy versus Timidity—Loving the Darkness.　86
CHAPTER VIII.—Mitake San—The Sacred Mount of the Three Peaks.
Bad Roads and Better Language—Spiders and Beetles—A Japanese Scarecrow—Night Storm in a Forest—A Dispirited Coolie—Sunday Quiet and Questioning—Buddhist Teaching and Modern Science—Passports and Preaching—A Picturesque School—Sick Cicadas—Art and Nature—Brambles and Barefeet.　94
CHAPTER IX.—Pilgrimage to Fugi the Peerless.
A Village Festival—Butterflies and Cicadas—A Noisy Inn—River Scene—Silk—Dining on Hot Water—Mimicry in Spiders—A Mountain Pass—Tea and Tattle—A Tragic Pool—Dissolving Views—Spindle Whorl—An Exciting and Ludicrous Scene—Limbs of the Law—Curious Bridge—Pious Parishioners and a Prudent Rector.　107
CHAPTER X.—Pilgrimage to Fugi the Peerless (Continued).
Pretty Tree Frogs—Ancient Trees—Buddha-faced Woman—Peep into a Village School—Ai Fish—Sweet Scenery—Awe Inspiring Walk—Lava Froth and its Use—Mild Martyrdom—A Heavenly Vision—Mountain Lake—Volcanic Prairie Flowers—An AEsthetic Jinrikisha Man—A Statuesque Stoat—Novel Tail-piece—Patriotic Bias—Fans versus Flies.　121
CHAPTER XI.—In a Cottage by the Sea.
A Fair Breeze and Holiday Aspirations—Voyage of Discovery—Crabs and Canal Banks—A Marine Tunnel-borer—Snakes and Frogs—Stone Net-sinkers—Koi Fish—A Lovely Marvel of the Sea—A Dying Cuttle-fish.　136
CHAPTER XII.—Trip to the Tomb of Iyeyasu.
Unpromising Start—Bridge of Japan—Suburbs of Tokio—An Amorous Ascetic—Flowering Palm Trees—A Brazen Serpent—Hotel Gossip and Pagan Devotions—Wonderful Avenue—Primitive Ploughs—Weeping Cherry Tree—A Quiet Priest and His Garden—Shrines and Saints—Uncountable Buddhas and Nature's Cynicism.　147
CHAPTER XIII.—Nagasaki and the Inland Sea.
Yedo Bay—Matsuwa's Sacrifice—Rapid Currents—Fair Islands—Atmospheric Effects—A Tight Fit—Shimonoseki—The Resources of Christian Civilization—A Big Indemnity—Grand Sea Scene and Mal de Mer—Nagasaki Harbour—Papenberg—Story of the Martyrs—Chinese Money Changers—Tortoise-shell Work—Schools and Missions.　164
CHAPTER XIV.—Ten Days on the Tokaido.
On the Osaka Railway—Cold Water Cure for Sin—A Kaleidoscopic Cook—Hints for Travellers—Glimpses of Kioto, the Old Capital—Buddhists and their Bells—A Lantern-lit City and a Star-lit Hedge—Salamanders and Singing Frogs—Snake-baskets and River-banks—On the Tokaido—Hakone Pass—A Volcanic Cup and some of its contents.　173
CHAPTER XV.—Japanese Philosophy of Flowers.
Simplicity of Japanese Bouquets—Artless Art—A Floral Calendar—Flower and Tree Markets—Fruitless Sprays of Blossom—Place of Honour and its Decoration—Allusive Obscurity— Heaven, Earth and Man—Symbolism in Flowers—Art Training of the People.　190
CHAPTER XVI.—The Language of Nipon.
A Japanese Writer's Lamentation—Some Common Misconceptions—Pijin English and its Uses—The Lingua Franca of the Far East—A Big Alphabet—Chinese Tones—Iconographs of Picture-Words—No Declesions, Conjugations, nor Pronouns—Imperfection of the Colloquial—Need of Linguistic Development—Capacity for Combinations—Suspected Sanskrit Affinities—Etiquette and Honorifics—Future of the Colloquial Language.　201
CHAPTER XVII.—Schools.
General Diffusion of Education in Japan—Educational Influence of Buddhism—Statistics—Duration of School Period—Genuine Accomplishments—Heroes of the School—Pens, Ink, and Paper—Introduction of Arabic Numerals—A Japanese Writer on Girls' Schools.　208
CHAPTER XVIII.—A Glimpse of the Land of Neglected Education.
The Carlyle and Thackeray of Japan—Bakin's Idea of the Genuine Gentleman—Geography of the Land—The Natives and their Strange Ways—Bad Schoolboys in Japan—Apprenticeship—Codding and its Consequences—A Family Scene—Breaking the Indentures—On the Streets—Moral.　217
CHAPTER XIX.—My Garden and its Guests.
A Dull Look-out—From Chaos to Cosmos—Shower of Frogs(?)—A Rare Hedge of Roses—How the Japanese treat Sick Trees—Painters and Pine-trees—Pine-boring Insect—Some Curious Spiders—A Fable fresh from Nature—Ants and Aphides—An Entomological Pharisee—Nest of the Mantis—Sons of the Prophets—A Flight of Dragon-flies—Moles and Worms—Curious Superstition—Committee Fever and Dame Nature's Soothing Syrup.　225
CHAPTER XX.—Japanese Art in Relation to Nature.
Absence of Degraded Conventionalism—An Exception Proving the Rule—Outlines of Fuji—The Bamboo in Art—Simplicity in Composition—Flight of Birds—Spider's Web in Wood-work—Want of Truth in Greek Art—A Japanese Picture Gallery.　238
CHAPTER XXI.—The Philosophy of Heaven and Earth in a Nut-shell.
Why Some Birds Fly Well and Others Badly—Guesses at Protective Imitation—A New Version of the Sphynx—Analogies of Nature and Man—Casting Away of Passion—The True Gentleman—The Eight Virtues—Some Wise Sayings.　250
CHAPTER XXII.—Homes of the People.
Moated Castles in Miniature—Bird Rest or Torii—Grim Gateways—Keeping the Wolf from the Door—Primitive Stairways—Pebbled Courtyard—Hara-kiri, or the Happy Despatch—Wells and Water—A Poet and the Morning Glory—Paper Lanterns, Pillows, etc.—Mosquito Nets—Rats and Cats—The End of the Home— Fire!　257
CHAPTER XXIII.—How the Japanese Amuse Themselves.
Artistic Toys—Cheapness, a Hygienic Advantage—Gardening in Miniature—Archaisms of the Toy World—Tough Picture-Books—Early Kinder Gartens—Dumb Oratory—Puppet Shows and the the Drama—Wrestlers and their Rewards.　271
CHAPTER XXIV.—Japanese Manners and Customs—Negative and Positive.
Degraded Religions—Origin of some Fetishes—Superstitious Customs.　280
CHAPTER XXV.—General Survey: What I Think of Japan.
Growth of Population—Promise of Improved Physique— Bafe Tea and Blankets—A Reasonable People—Over-Legislation about Shipping—Usurpation of the Shoguns—Growth of the Daimiates— Questionings—Japanese Whigs and Tories—Dread of Socialism—The Clan Unit—Moral Progress—Revisal of Treaties.　291

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記載書誌
WENCKSTERN I, p. 45. BLUM I, 652.