# Things Japanese

5th edition
THINGS JAPANESE
BEING
NOTES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH JAPAN
FOR THE USE OF TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS
BY
BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE AND PHILOLOGY IN THE IMPERIAL
UNIVERSITY OF TŌKYŌ
Fifth Edition Revised
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
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1905 [All rights reserved]
Les longs ouvrages me font peur.
Loin d'épuiser une matière,
On n'en doit prendre que la fleur.
(La Fontaine.)
PREFACE.
In the unlikely event of any one instituting a minute comparison between this edition and its predecessor, he would find minor alterations innumerable,—here a line erased, there a paragraph added, or again a figure changed, a statement qualified, a description or a list brought up to date. But take it altogether, the book remains the same as heretofore. It would seem to have found favour in many quarters, to judge from the manner in which, years after its first appearance, newspapers and book-makers continue to quote wholesale from it without acknowledgment; and the title, which cost us much cogitation, and which we borrowed ultimately from the Spanish phrase cosas de España, has passed into general use, even coming to supply titles for similar works written about other lands in imitation of this one.
The article on Archæology contributed by Mr. W. G. Aston, C. M. G., to the second edition, and that on Geology by Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., remain untouched. Best thanks, once more, to these kind friends, as also ​to Mr. James Murdoch, Mr. H. V. Henson, Rev. Dr. D. C Greene, and Abbé J. N. Guérin, who have supplied information on points beyond the scope of our own knowledge. To Mr. W. B. Mason and to Mr. W. D. Cox we are under special obligations,—to the former for constant advice and assistance during the progress of the work, to the latter for revision of the proofs, a task of a different order of difficulty in this country from what it is at home with printers whose native language is English. The greater part of the index has been compiled by Mr. E. B. Clarke, of the First Higher School, Tōkyō.
       Miyanoshita,
          November, 1904.
* Note on the Pronunciation of Japanese Words
* Introductory Chapter
* Abacus
* Abdication
* Acupuncture
* Adams (Will)
* Adoption
* Agriculture
* Ainos
* Amusements
* Archæology
* Architecture
* Armour
* Army
* Art
* Asiatic Society of Japan
* Bamboos
* Bathing
* Bibliography
* Birthdays
* Blackening the Teeth
* Books on Japan
* Botany
* Bowing to the Emperor's Picture
* Bronze
* Buddhism
* Camphor
* Capital Cities
* Carving
* Cats
* Cha-no-yu
* Characteristics
* Charms and Sacred Pictures
* Chauvinism
* Cherry-blossom
* Chess
* Children
* Christianity in Japan
* Clans
* Classes of Society
* Climate
* Cloisonné
* Confucianism
* Conventions
* Cormorant-fishing
* Cremation
* Currency
* Cycle
* Daimyō
* Dances
* Decorations
* Demoniacal Possession
* Divination
* Dress
* Duck-hunting
* Earthquakes and Volcanoes
* Education
* Embroidery
* Empress
* English as she is Japped
* Esotericism
* Eta
* Eurasians
* Europeanisation
* Fairy-tales
* Fans
* Fashionable Crazes
* Festivals
* Filial Piety
* Fires
* Fire-walking
* Fishing
* Flag
* Flowers
* Food
* Foreign Employés in Japan
* Forfeits
* Formosa
* Forty-seven Rōnins
* Fuji
* Fun
* Funerals
* Gardens
* Geisha
* Geography
* Geology
* Globe-trotters
* Go
* Government
* Harakiri
* Heraldry
* History and Mythology
* Incense Parties
* Indian Influence
* Industrialism
* Japan
* Japanese People (Characteristics of the)
* Jinrikisha
* Kaempfer
* Kago
* Kakke
* Kakemono
* Lacquer
* Language
* Law
* Literature
* Little Spring
* Living
* Logic
* Long-tailed Fowls
* Lotus
* Luchu
* Luck (Gods of)
* Maps
* Marriage
* Maru
* Massage
* Metal-work
* Mikado
* Mineral Springs
* Mirrors
* Missions
* Moral Maxims
* Mourning
* Moxa
* Music
* Mythology
* Names
* Naturalisation
* Navy
* Newspapers
* Nō
* Nobility
* Numerical Categories
* Painting
* Paper
* Parkes (Sir Harry)
* Perry (Commodore)
* Philosophy
* Pidgin-Japanese
* Pilgrimages
* Pipes
* Poetry
* Politeness
* Polo
* Population
* Porcelain and Pottery
* Posts
* Praying-wheel
* Printing
* Proverbs
* Pug-dogs
* Race
* Railways
* Religion
* Roads
* Rowing
* Sake
* Salutations
* Samurai
* Sculpture
* Shimo-bashira
* Shintō
* Shipping
* Shōgun
* Shooting
* Siebold
* Silk
* Singing-girls
* Societies
* Society
* Story-tellers
* Sun, Moon, and Stars
* Supernatural Creatures
* Superstitions
* Swords
* Taste
* Tattooing
* Tea
* Tea Ceremonies
* Telegraphs
* Theatre
* Time
* Tobacco
* Topsy-turvydom
* Torii
* Towels
* Trade
* Treaties with Foreign Powers
* Tycoon
* Vegetable Wax
* Volcanoes
* Weights and Measures
* Woman (Status of)
* Wood Engraving
* Wrestling
* Writing
* Yezo
* Yoshiwara
* Zoology
* Index
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