1001　　Fraser, Mary Crawford　(1851-1922)
Letters from Japan.　1899. 2 vols.

LETTERS FROM JAPAN, A RECORD OF MODERN LIFE IN THE ISLAND EMPIRE, BY MRS. HUGH FRASER, AUTHOR OF PALLADIA, THE LOOMS OF TIME, A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS, ETC. WITH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS, VOL. I [-II].
New York, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1899. All rights reserved.
VOL. I. xxii, 394 p. 24 cm.
VOL. II. xiii, 387, [1] p. 24 cm.

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目　　次
VOL. I.
CONTENTS TO VOL. I.
CHAPTER I.
The Inland Sea—Mist Pictures—A Fleet of Junks—At the Heart of Things—A City of Gardens—The Wistaria Temple—A Feast for Hungry Spirits—Mail Day.　1
CHAPTER II.
The New Imperial Palace—An Audience with the Empress—Count Ito's Garden Party—Kyosai, a Japanese Artist—A Fair—Firefly Stories—Fanatics and their Victims—A Dynamite Offering.　18
CHAPTER III.
Summer Rains in Tokyo—The Fall of the Tokugawa Shoguns and the End of Feudalism—Sir Harry Parkes and Count Goto—Origin of Consular Jurisdiction—The Samurai of Yesterday and the Soshi of To-day—The Empress's Charities—A Society for the Correction of Morals.　45
CHAPTER IV.
The Sea Temples of Miyajima—The Spirit of Peace—The Prince Imperial—The Last of the Shoguns—English acclimatised—The Queen of Mountains—Street Sights and Sounds—The Tsukiji Orphanage.　66
CHAPTER V.
On the Way to Atami—Forgotten Passports—From the Windows of the Higuchi Hotel—The Geyser and its Habits—Lilies and Seafalcons.　89
CHAPTER VI.
Atami's Temple and its Grove—The Great Camphor Tree—The Legend of the Boiling Spring—A Night Festival, a Dancer, and a Raid.　109
CHAPTER VII.
Our Return to Tokyo—A Strange Situation—Dogs and Cats in Japan—Comedies of the Servants' Quarters—Doctor Baelz and his Medical Students—Tokyo's Three-hundredth Birthday—Uyeno and its Story.　123
CHAPTER VIII.
Miyanoshita—A Chair Journey through the Woods—A Resting-place in the Forest—Hot Springs and Wood-carvers' Shops—Family Life—A Pretty Picture—The Sulphur Valley—Time to go Home, and the Autumn Typhoon.　146
CHAPTER IX.
The Attack on Count Okuma—Soshi Agitation—The Campos Incident—A Concert and a Charity—The Saddest Thing in Japan—Father Testevuide and the Leper Hospital at Gotemba—Japanese Helpers.　169
CHAPTER X.
The Maples at Last—The Maple Club—A Reception Day at the Palace—Manners, Eastern and Western—Artistic Confectionery—The Maid of Honour's Dolls—Chrysanthemum Gardens—A Unique Specimen—Flower Groups—Family Life in the Little Homes— A Party for making Tea in Old Age.　185
CHAPTER XI.
The Empress-Dowager and her Mushroom-hunting—Mushroom Picnics on Inari-Yama—The Tosa Monkeys—The Prince Imperial and the Ceremony called Rittaishi—A Sword of State—Count Yamagata—Prince and Princess Sanjo—The Five Regent Families.　205
CHAPTER XII.
Sir Edwin Arnold, a Baby, and the Japanese Grammar—How Countess Kuroda's Portrait was painted— Very Old, over Twenty—My Second Visit to Atami—A Vision of Fuji—Forgotten Medals—The Attack on the Legation in 1861.　223
CHAPTER XIII.
New Year's Day at the Palace—A Christmas Tree—Japanese Children— Come back Next Year.　243
CHAPTER XIV.
New Year's Customs and Presents—Propitious Dreams, and how Masako bought One—The Dream of Suinin—Prohibition of Duelling—Feudal Ideals—Pictures of a Daimyo's Life— Eyes speak better than Words.　260
CHAPTER XV.
A Cabinet Minister and a Fortified Carriage—A Memorial to the Throne—Count Ito and Treaty Revision—The Japanese Spring— The Eldest Brother of the Hundred Flowers—Popular Festivals.　277
CHAPTER XVI.
The Girls' Month—Origin of the Dolls' Festival—A Wonderful Show—The Japanese Girl and her Upbringing—Wives and Mothers-in-law—O'Sudzu's Divorce— Flame is the Flower of Yedo.　297
CHAPTER XVII.
The Spring Manoeuvres—Opening of the Uyeno Exhibition—Ancient and Modern Art in Japan—Ivories and Enamels—The Duke and Duchess of Connaught.　323
CHAPTER XVIII.
Danjuro, a Great Actor—His Position in Japan—A Foundation Stone—The Destruction of Japanese Ideals by English Education—Prince Komatsu and Two Imperial Orders—Departure of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught—A Very Sad Story.　346
CHAPTER XIX.
Kamakura, To-day and Yesterday—The Strange Adventures of Yoritomo—Masako's Mirror and a Wonderful Dream—Yoritomo's Triumph— Death has conquered—A Moonlight Pilgrimage—The Great Buddha—Kwannon, the Lover of Humanity.　363
CHAPTER XX.
The Beach at Kamakura—Little Shell-gatherers—Hauling in the Nets—The Fishermen's Pensioners—The Sword of Nitta—The Temple of Hachiman—Sanetomo and Yoriiye—The Death of Sanetomo.　379VOL. II.CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
CHAPTER XXI.
Enoshima, the Island of the Tortoise—The Sea-goddess's City—The Home of the Shells— A Bath in the Wine of Life—Kings and Queens of the Deep—Benten Sama's Temple—The Cave of the Dragon.　1
CHAPTER XXII.
A Sensational Journey—Ikao and the Great Hills—Kindly Showers—A Walk up the Gorge—Buddha among the Teacups—The Colour of Ikao—Pictures in the Village Street—Fishing for Goldfish.　21
CHAPTER XXIII.
From Ikao to Karuizawa—The Silk Harvest—A Rest at Iizuka—Climbing up the Pass—A Sea of Peaks—The Palace of Peace—Our own Policeman.　41
CHAPTER XXIV.
In the Dawn of Time—The Star Lovers and their Story—The Pitiful History of O sho Kung.　55
CHAPTER XXV.
The Approach of the Storm—At the Heart of the Typhoon—A Funny Sight—The Usui Toge—The Story of a Hero, and a Heroine—Yamato's Repentance— In the Sweet Open Fields.　73
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Charcoal-burner loses his Way— A Mistake no Crime—Invasion!—Pilgrims and their Ways—Pilgrim Clubs—An Enterprising Old Lady.　93
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Autumn Typhoon—The Loss of the Ertogroul—Legends of Fuji—The Great Upheaval—Chinese Tradition and the Sacred Mountain—The Story of Jofuku—The Lotus Peak.　108
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Opening of the Diet—The Attack on the Russian Legation—Soshi at our own Gates—Prince Komatsu and the Grand Cross of the Bath—The Imperial Chrysanthemums.　125
CHAPTER XXIX.
Nikko at last!—The Bridge of Beauty and the Bridge of Use—In the Temple Courts—The Story of Iyeyasu—His Friend, Will Adams, the Rochester Pilot—A Piece of Imprisoned Sunshine—Maples and Waterfalls—Chuzenji.　148
CHAPTER XXX.
Another Christmas Tree—Babies, European and Japanese—Ideals of Home and School—A Day at Meguro—A Little Samurai Girl—A Visitation of Influenza—Miyanoshita as a Sanatorium—Burning of the Houses of Parliament.　168
CHAPTER XXXI.
A Reading Society—Stories for the Japanese Ladies—The Empress's Verses—The Exaggeration of a Virtue—Marriage, Eastern and Western—Motherhood and Fatherhood—Parental Ties—New Laws of Inheritance.　188
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Death of Prince Sanjo—A State Funeral—A Brave Daughter—Ogita's Farewell—The Shiba Temples—A Feast of Beauty.　210
CHAPTER XXXIII.
In the Empress's own Garden—A White Sail set Square to the Wind—The Boys' Festival, its Origin and Meaning—Hideyoshi and his Battle Standard—The Mongolian Invasion.　231
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Attack on the Cesarevitch—Loyal Women—Tsuda Sanzo and his Life History—A Nation in Mourning—Courageous Judges—A Samurai Maiden.　253
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Cottage at Horiuchi—The Dear Dead—Gifts for the Spirits—The Bottom of the Sea—Fishing in the Empress's Sea Garden.　272
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Karuizawa again—Furihata is restored to us—Our own Volcano—The Mountain's Outer Court—The Iriyama Toge and the Cathedral Rocks—Sunset Lilies—A Forgotten Monastery and a Dying Man.　285
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Death of Father Testevuide—Holy Poverty—Unsuspected Philanthropists—The Leper Hospital again—A Leper's Death—Mere Sainte-Mathilde.　303
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
The Definition of a Samurai—Samurai Men and Women—Samurai Ideals—The Red Cross Society—Sword-damascening—Clan Government—Sayonara, Toki!　312
CHAPTER XXXIX.
A Terrible Earthquake—Destruction of a Province—Kakke, a Strange Disease—Japanese Trained Nurses.　326
CHAPTER XL.
The Marriage of Prince Kanin and Princess Chiye Sanjo—The Wedding Dinner and the Wedding Cake—The Story of the Sun-goddess—Buddhist and Shinto Nuns—An Imperial Abbess.　340
CHAPTER XLI.
A Visit to the Museum—An Ancient Car—My Guide—Christian Relics—Persecutors and Persecuted—An Hour in the Art School among the Lacquer-workers.　357
CHAPTER XLII.
The Emperor's Silver Wedding—A Typical Gathering—No Dancing—The Curtain Falls.　373

注　　記
VOL. I の表紙裏に Cara. L. Broughton August 1899' との書き込み。
VOL. I, VOL. II 各冊の遊び紙に＜W. B. CLARKE CO. Booksellers & Stationers Park St. Church, Boston.＞との書店ラベル。
VOL. II の表紙裏に＜PARK CLOSE, Englefield Green.＞との蔵書票。


記載書誌
CORDIER, col. 660. TOYO BUNKO, p. 32. NIPPONALIA I, 2020.