Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and OthersK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 503 pages |
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... European , save for a certain obliqueness of the eyes and scantiness of beard . Old things pass away between a night and a morning . The Japanese boast that they have done in twenty years what it took Europe half as many centuries to ...
... European , save for a certain obliqueness of the eyes and scantiness of beard . Old things pass away between a night and a morning . The Japanese boast that they have done in twenty years what it took Europe half as many centuries to ...
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... European world of thought , of enterprise , of gigantic scientific achievement , is as much a wonder- world to the ... Europe and America , with their railways , their tele- graphs , their gigantic commerce , their gigantic armies and ...
... European world of thought , of enterprise , of gigantic scientific achievement , is as much a wonder- world to the ... Europe and America , with their railways , their tele- graphs , their gigantic commerce , their gigantic armies and ...
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... printed in Vol . XIV . Part I. of the Asiatic Transactions . Abdication . The abdication of monarchs , which is exceptional in Europe , has for many ages been the rule in Japan . It came into vogue in the seventh century 10 Abdication .
... printed in Vol . XIV . Part I. of the Asiatic Transactions . Abdication . The abdication of monarchs , which is exceptional in Europe , has for many ages been the rule in Japan . It came into vogue in the seventh century 10 Abdication .
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... the various judicial and consular authorities . We recommend , as a good occupation for a rainy day , the endeavour to trace out the real relationships ( in our European sense of the word ) of some of the reader's Adoption . 17.
... the various judicial and consular authorities . We recommend , as a good occupation for a rainy day , the endeavour to trace out the real relationships ( in our European sense of the word ) of some of the reader's Adoption . 17.
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... Europe . The women tattoo moustaches on their upper lip and geometrical patterns on their hands . Both sexes are of a mild and amiable disposition , but are terribly addicted to drunkenness . They are filthily dirty , the practice of 18 ...
... Europe . The women tattoo moustaches on their upper lip and geometrical patterns on their hands . Both sexes are of a mild and amiable disposition , but are terribly addicted to drunkenness . They are filthily dirty , the practice of 18 ...
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