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833　Younghusband, G. J. (George John)　(1859-1944)
On short leave to Japan.　1894.

ON SHORT LEAVE TO JAPAN, BY CAPTAIN G. J. YOUNGHUSBAND, QUEEN'S OWN CORPS OF GUIDES, AUTHOR OF

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MILES ON A BURMESE TAT,'

FRAYS AND FORAYS'

THE QUEEN'S COMMISSION.'
LONDON, SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY Limited, St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E. C. 1894.
xi, [1], 233, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates. 20 cm.

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CHAPTER IV.

Hong Kong—Excellent hotel—The racecourse—The Chinese pony—Polo—Sikh police—Some signboards—A cabletram—The steepest railway on earth—The Peak—The garrison—The fleet—Chinese servants—Shops—Manilla cigars—The Messageries Maritimes—English the language of the world—Voyage to Shanghai—Shanghai—China Town—A Japanese lady—Her admirers—The Kassiwari—Caught in a fog—A dangerous day—Napkins and towels—Charging a cliff—Japan.　p. [38]-57.

CHAPTER V.

The Inland Sea—Narrow passages—A sea train—Cold and rain in June—Kob

—Our first acquaintance with the man of Japan—His consuming politeness—The streets by night—The most effective time—A guard of honour—Chinese politeness—The shops of Kob

—Hiogo—The elevated river—To Yokohama by sea—Grand view of Mount Fuji, 12,450 feet high—Yokohama—Invaluable Murray—

Old Japan'—Temperature—Passports.　p. [58]-68.

CHAPTER VI.

Sir Edwin Arnold and Mr. Clement Scott—Severe criticism of the Japanese women—A maledictory ode—Mr. Mitford's judicious words—Tokyo—Modern Japan—The Mikado of our imaginings—The Mikado as he is—Clipped daimios and modern Counts—Progress and other people's clothes—A Japanese lady in European clothes—An English lady in Japanese clothes—Substantial signs of civilisation—Telegraphs, posts, electric light, tramways, bicycles, hotels, police—Asakusa—The god with the bib—A short, sharp burst through 6771 volumes.　p. [69]-81.

CHAPTER VII.

The Theatre—The Irving of Japan—A lengthy performance—The seating—Stage management—Sepulchral supers—The chorus—Refreshments—The plot of the play—Hari-kiri, the Japanese suicide—An account from Old Japan.　p. [82]-99.

CHAPTER VIII.

Tokyo by night—Holiday resorts—Our old friends

the forty-seven'—Their pathetic story—The Shiba temples—The tombs of the Shoguns—Japan the Ramsgate of America—Ueno Park—The Mikado's bullock-cart—Christian relics—

Trampling boards'—Irises—Colonel Fukushima and his reception.　p. [100]-109.

CHAPTER IX.

Nikko—The journey there—Japanese railways—A Japanese hotel—Hospitable welcome—Excellent living—Our handmaid—Business letters—The mausolea—Short history of Ieyasu.　p. [110]-118.

CHAPTER X.

The tomb of a great soldier—Described in detail—Rainiest place in Japan—

A chair that gets up with you'—Under strict discipline—Lake Chuzenji—Ponies—Round the world playing billiards—The slapdash tourist—The god

Humbug'—The goddess

Jingo'—Fur slippers—Nikko scenery.　p. [119]-136.

CHAPTER XI.

Hot springs in the hills—Ikao—A tedious journey—A courteous stationmaster—Some hotels deteriorate—The reason why—Luxurious hot baths—Natural dyeing properties—Lake Haruna—Our cab-horse—Harrowing stories—Indiscreet paper walls—Their advantages—Educating the toes—A cheap resort.　p. [137]-145.

CHAPTER XII.

Telegrams—Postage—By train—First class or second class?—Japanese fellow-travellers—A first-class hotel—Train, tram, and rickshaw to Mujanoshita—Disappointed with it—A bento box—Hakon

Lake—In Japan again—

Hell's caldron'—Adam and Eve again—Why not?—Missionaries and missionaries—Foster-mothers—Philandering—Fishing—

Ye banks and braes o'bonnie Doon'—Away, away—A kago.　p. [146]-157.

CHAPTER XIII.

The aboriginal inn—The Tokaido—Magnificent views—Sandals for man and beast—The rickshaw man, and some reflections on him—A village tea-house—Japanese gardens—Our way of living—An embarrassing bath—Luxurious beds—On to Lake Biwa—Inhospitality—The old daimio's castle—By steamer to Otsu—The

assassination' of the Czarewitch.　p. [158]-173.

CHAPTER XIV.

The ancient capital—Mr Clement Scott again—Some reflections by an onlooker—

Prison-editors'—The Mikado of old—Kyoto v. Tokyo—The Abacus—Japanned English—The purchasing mania—The town at night—The Mikado's palace—A boy engineer.　p. [174]-191.

CHAPTER XV.

Osaka—Dante's Inferno—The river by night—Nara—The Daibutsu—A mermaid—The waters of Takaradzuka—

Sayona.'　p. [192]-196.

CHAPTER XVI.

Financial—Expenses of journey to Japan—Curio buying—Hotels in India, China, and Japan—Town hotels in Japan—Hill hotels—Country inns—

Tips'—

The pestilential guide'—Through the Customs—Money—Spring, summer, autumn, or winter?—With an unbiassed mind.　p. [197]-209.

CHAPTER XVII.

The army of Japan—The death of feudalism—Rise of the standing army—Japan's instructors—Strength—Conscription—Pay—Uniform—Physique—Martial spirit—Barracks—Rations—The officers—Their messes—The infantry: armament: drill—Cavalry: horses: armament: strength of units: stables: fodder: saddle—Artillery—A political factor in the East—V. China—With Siam—Press power—And how it may be used.　p. [210]-233.

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記載書誌
WENCKSTERN I, p. 51. TOYO BUNKO, p. 37. NIPPONALIA I, 2093. BLUM II, 2799. YOKOYAMA, 203.