Americans in Japan: An Abridgment of the Government Narrative of the U S Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry (Japan Library)

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Americans in Japan: An Abridgment of the Government Narrative of the U S Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry (Japan Library)

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Excerpt from The Americans in An Abridgement of the Government Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore PerrySimoda - Its Position The Town, how built and laid out - Advanced Civili zation - Shops and Dwelling Houses - The Exterior - Internal Arrange ments - Lodging Houses - Announcement of Arrivals - Number of Houses and Population - Disproportion of Officials and Digmtaries - Immoral Prac tice of Simodans - Dlet of People - Cultivation of Rice and Gram - The Buddhist Temples - ~the Sculpture and Paintings - The Devil's Charity Boxes - Grave-yards - Tombs and Epitaphs - The Rio-zen-shi - The Mies The godlike Hashimah - The small Shrines - The Mariners' Temple - The Support of the Church - Neighborhood of Simoda - Its Beauty and Cultiva tion - River Hongo - Japanese Rice-cleaner - Chmete and Health of Simoda - The new Local Government.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Published July 28, 2015
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