Japan

Lunch in Public - A Grotesque Accident - Police Inquiries - Man or Woman? - A Melancholy Stare - A Vicious Horse - An Ill-favoured Town - A Disappointment - A Torii.

Ito's Delinquency - "Missionary Manners" - A Predicted Failure.

HAKODATE, YEZO.

A Japanese Pack-Horse and Pack-Saddle - Yadoya and Attendant - A Native Watering-Place - The Sulphur Baths - A "Squeeze."

YASHIMAYA, YUMOTO, NIKKOZAN MOUNTAINS, June 22.

A Casual Invitation - A Ludicrous Incident - Politeness of a Policeman - A Comfortless Sunday - An Outrageous Irruption - A Privileged Stare.

At a wayside tea-house, soon after leaving Rokugo in kurumas, I met the same courteous and agreeable young doctor who was stationed at Innai during the prevalence of kak'ke, and he invited me to visit the hospital at Kubota, of which he is junior physician, and told Ito of a restaurant at which "foreign food" can be obtained - a pleasant prospect, of which he is always reminding me.

A Lovely Sunset - An Official Letter - A "Front Horse" - Japanese Courtesy - The Steam Ferry - Coolies Abscond - A Team of Savages - A Drove of Horses - Floral Beauties - An Unbeaten Track - A Ghostly Dwelling - Solitude and Eeriness.

GINSAINOMA, YEZO, August 17.

by Lafcadio Hearn

"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back
to a time of rigid and pervading discipline" - WALTER BAGEHOT.

by Lafcadio Hearn