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Finck, Henry Theophilus (1854-1926)
Lotos-time in Japan. 1895.
LOTOS-TIME IN JAPAN, BY HENRY T. FINCK, ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK, CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1895.
xvii, 337 p., [16] leaves of plates. 22 cm.
[DS/809/Fi](00005127)
目 次
CONTENTS.
To Japan, via Hawaii.
1
Time and Expense—Five Hours at Honolulu—Mount Fuji—Are American Indians Japanese?—Scenes in Yokohama Bay—Perry and his Oyster.
Yokohama—Foreign and Native.
9
Baby Carriages for Adults—Half-way House to Japan—Barbers and Bar-rooms—The Bund and the Bluff—Clubs—Scarcity of Foreign Women—Staring at Foreigners—Young Beggars—Oriental Bowery Shows—Queer Music—Godowns and Green Tea—An Apology for Yokohama.
Railway and Kuruma.
22
America in Japan—Locomotives and Natives—A Typical Station—Clog Dance—A Eurasian Hotel—A Polite Clerk—A Plea for Lemons—A Quiet City—Bird's-eye View—Hills and Parks—Traits of Kuruma Coolies—What is Degrading Work?
Street Scenes in T
ky
.
37
Recent Changes—Daimyos and Samurai—Yashikis and Moats—Policemen—Attacks on Foreigners—Safety in City and Country—Shops and Homes exposed to View—Bazaars—Trades Flocking Together—Comic Signboards—Ungrammatical Costumes—Brunettes in Blue—Modest Exposure—Japanese Children—Bowing—How the Poor Live—Fires and Godowns.
From Morning till Midnight.
54
T
ky
at its Toilet—Dogs and Chickens—Fish Market—Dangerous Wells—Nap Time—A Foolish Law—Coolies versus Horses—Street Sprinkling—Planed Ice—Stewed Tea—A Carriage Drive—Where Missionaries Live—Scenes about a Buddhist Temple—Religion and Fun—Archery Girls—A Night Crowd—Flower Show—River Festival—Day and Night Fireworks—The City Band.
Wine, Women, and Song.
75
Beauty of Japanese Women—Brunettes only—Waiting Maids and Singing Girls—Like the Ancient Greeks—An Esthetic Banquet—Music and Banter—Fireboxes—Rice Wine—Soup and Fish—Chopsticks—Dancing and Drums—Gilded Vice—A Slave Market—Trap for Criminals.
A Theatre and A School.
91
Only Seven Hours—Behavior of the Audience—Social Status of Actors—Trailing Trousers—The Kneeling Nation—Expression of Emotion—Chinese Falsetto—Scenery and Music—Stage Illusions—Count Okuma's School—Speeches and Prizes—Lunch in the Count's Garden.
The Mikado and The Exhibition.
103
A Vast Curio Store—Visitors—Semi-Foreign Picture Gallery—A Gastronomic Insult—An Imperial Prisoner—The Mikado's First Outing—Invisible No Longer—Editorial Punishment—A Remarkable Monarch—Personal Appearance—Evening Dress in the Morning—Japanese Journalists—Emperor or Mikado?—A Foreign Dinner.
Off for Japanese Siberia.
117
Climate of Japan—Monkeys in the Snow—Skating in T
ky
—Yezo versus Hondo—Damp Days—Climate and Literature—Professors at Home—Coolie Traits—Guides—A Literary Companion—Unusual Privileges—Mulberry Plantations—An Inn at Sendai—Transforming a Room—Quilts and Pillows—The Bill.
On a Coast Steamer.
128
The Famous Pine Islands—The Island Empire—Melons and Eels—Japanese Steamers—High Fare—Meals in
Foreign
Style—Yankees Out-Yankeed—Passengers and Cargo—A Large Fishing Village.
Japanese Gibraltar.
135
Sights in Hakodate—New Buddhist Temple—An Interview—A Japanese Interior—Toy Garden and Fish Pond—Barber and Taylor—How to please Girls—Taken to the Bath—Courtship and Marriage—Odors and Noises—Dining and Climbing—A Sea Bath—Round the Island—
Irish Stewed
—Otaru Peasants—Marvel of Politeness—A Mixed Inn.
American Sapporo.
151
Natives in the Ocean—Capitol of Yezo—Russian Designs—American Farms and Factories—Expensive Experiments—City and Suburbs—Calling on the Governor-General—A Eurasian House—Beer and Fruit—The Superintendent's Kindness—A Unique Museum—A Dairy—Seeing the Factories—Tea-house Girls—Lamps and Washstands—American and Asiatic Correspondence—A Comic Resemblance.
Into the Virgin Forest.
166
A Greek Idyl—In a Japanese Coal Mine—Convicts—Ride on a Coal Train—A Pond and a Bathing Scene—Caught in the Rain—Horses and Guides—Treating the Ainos—Bear Fights and Poisoned Arrows—American Clearings—Japanese Pioneers—Forest Enchantment—Nightingales and Flowers—Polite Convicts—A Yezo Song—Centre of the Island—More Ainos—Newspapers and Magazines.
The Ainos and the Whale.
192
Yezo Apples—Time not Money—Stage Ride to Mororan—A Useful Lotos Pond—Japanese Chivalry—Along the Wild Coast—Beach Roses—Fireboxes—A Deserted Aino Town—Excitement on the Beach—Whale Ashore—Blubber and Prayers—Aino Women—Revenge on the Kodaker.
From Mororan to Hakodate.
203
Escorted to the Inn—Crossing the Stormy Bay—Suburbs of Hakodate—Expense of the Yezo Trip—Bath in the Sulphur Springs—The Typhoon.
Through Medi
val Japan.
208
Bear Cub—Melons—Roofs—From Railway to Kuruma—Early Morning Scenes—Ravages of the Storm—Changeable Rivers and Coolies—Silkworms—Foreigners as a Curiosity—A Remarkable Runner—Types of Female Beauty—Ditches and Deaths—Rainy Japan—How Coolies Eat—Babies and Pickles—Naked and not Ashamed—An Exciting Ferry—A Grand Avenue.
A Pilgrim's Paradise.
224
A Rainy Region—Nikko's Long Street—Our Summer House—Pilgrim Processions—Nature and Religion—Ieyasu—The Temples—Art Works—A Sacred Dance—Ferns, Mosses, and Sun Jewels—Lotos Roots—What Japanese Houses Need.
Nikko Lakes and Waterfalls.
234
Back View Cascade—Tea or Lies—Kegon-No-Taki—Lake Ch
zenji—A Lakeside Inn—Dragon's Head Cascade—Moor of the Red Swamp—Lake Yumoto—Public Baths—The Hot Springs—Foam Cascade—Nearly a Waterfall—Snake Stories—A Cholera Scare—A Night half way up Fuji—Sleeping under an Umbrella.
Railway Genre Pictures.
248
The Legend of Fuji and Biwa—A Popular Railway—How Japanese Women Smoke—A Married Beauty—The Dress Problem—Fat Wrestlers—Lunch Boxes—Cheap Tea Sets.
Fascinations of Ky
to.
255
Watermelons and Cholera—The Japanese Rome—A City of Temples—The Corean Ear Mound—Buddhist Chanting—Rascally Priests—Silk Factories—Southern Female Beauty—The Spanish Type—Photographs of Geishas—A Blind Musician—Koto Concert—Cheap Art Treasures—An Oriental Nocturne.
Lake and Lotos Pond.
267
Otsu—Puns and Poetry—Japan's Largest Lake—Acres of Lotos Flowers—Difficult to Paint—The Lotos in Japan, India, and America.
Are the Japanese Topsy-Turvy?
273
Two Funny Incidents—Social Antipodisms—A Perverse Language—A Japanese Letter—Lacquer and Wind—When we are Topsy-Turvy—How to stable Horses—Proper Way to address Letters.
The Mote and the Beam.
280
Six Hundred Missionaries—Denominationalism—An Agnostic's Opinion—Creeds and Deeds—Occidental Bunkum—Indians and Slavery—Getting Civilized—Commercial and Sexual Morality.
Nudity and Bathing.
286
Public Baths—Modest Exposure—A Foolish Law—Nudity and Climate—Customs of Various Countries—Shocked at our Habits—No
Great Unwashed
—A Sensuous Luxury—Bathing to get Warm—Scenes in Bath Houses—An Esthetic Question—Neglect of the Nude in Art.
The Esthetic Nation.
298
Music and Nationality—Future of Japanese Music—Sculpture and Architecture—Great in Small Things—Decorative Art—Impressionism—Irregularity—Love of Nature—Flowers versus Bouquets—Flower Seasons—Poetic Names—Mottoes on Screens—Japanese Poetry—Love Letters on Trees.
A Superior Civilization.
313
Care for Parents—A Paradise of Babies—Children born Civilized—School and Holidays—A Thousand Years of Politeness—A Language without Profanity—Smiling in Grief—Altruism versus Egotism—American Rudeness—No Flaunting of Wealth—American Plutocracy—Inside and Outside—Kindness to Animals—Transition Period—Three Kinds of Patriotism—Shintoism—Criminals and Crowds—Sailors' Amusements—How to enjoy Life.
注 記
表紙裏に＜Ex Libris Virginia H. Clark.＞との蔵書票。
標題紙の次の紙葉に＜Cordially Dedicated TO HENRY VILLARD＞との献辞。
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記載書誌
TOYO BUNKO, p. 31.