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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... interesting discovery was made in 1878 by Professor Morse near the Omori station of the Tokyo - Yokohama rail- way . He found that the railway cutting at this place passed through mounds identical in character with the " kitchen ...
... interesting discovery was made in 1878 by Professor Morse near the Omori station of the Tokyo - Yokohama rail- way . He found that the railway cutting at this place passed through mounds identical in character with the " kitchen ...
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... interesting to the student of Japanese matters is treated of in the pages of these TRANSACTIONS , which have , for twenty years past , been the favourite vehicle of publication for the researches of Satow , Aston , Blakiston , Pryer ...
... interesting to the student of Japanese matters is treated of in the pages of these TRANSACTIONS , which have , for twenty years past , been the favourite vehicle of publication for the researches of Satow , Aston , Blakiston , Pryer ...
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... interesting tracks , and tell it not only with the discrimination of a born observer , but with the authority of an old resident , such as the good old Abbé was . Where one has hundreds of books to choose from , such a list as the above ...
... interesting tracks , and tell it not only with the discrimination of a born observer , but with the authority of an old resident , such as the good old Abbé was . Where one has hundreds of books to choose from , such a list as the above ...
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... Interesting speeimens of Japanese sermons may be found in Mitford's Tales of Old Japan , Vol . II . , and in J. M. James's Discourse on Infinite Vision , printed in the Asiatic Transactions , Vol . VII . Part IV . - The tenets and the ...
... Interesting speeimens of Japanese sermons may be found in Mitford's Tales of Old Japan , Vol . II . , and in J. M. James's Discourse on Infinite Vision , printed in the Asiatic Transactions , Vol . VII . Part IV . - The tenets and the ...
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... interesting details of the " palaces " in which the Daimyös lived while attending on the Shogun at Yedo , Dances . Our one word " dance " is represented by two in Japanese - mai and odori , the former being a general name for the more ...
... interesting details of the " palaces " in which the Daimyös lived while attending on the Shogun at Yedo , Dances . Our one word " dance " is represented by two in Japanese - mai and odori , the former being a general name for the more ...
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