A History of Japan, Volume 3K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1926 - Japan |
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Abé administration affairs Aidzu appeared Arai authorities Bakufu barbarians became Buddhist capital Castle century chief China Chinese Chōshū clan connexion Council Councillors course Court nobles Daimyō death Deshima dispatched domains Dutch Echizen Emperor Empire envoy favour feudal feudatories fief foreign Fudai Government Governor Hatamoto Hayashi Hideyoshi Hikone Hitotsubashi Hoshina Hotta Imperial important instructions intercourse Iyemitsu Iyenari Iyenobu Iyeyasu Japan Japanese Kaempfer Kamakura Kami Karō Kishū koku Kumazawa Kyōto Kyūshū land later learning Lord Nariaki Magistrates Matsudaira Matsudaira Nobutsuna matter Meanwhile Mikado mission Mito Mizuno Nagasaki occasion officials once Osaka Owari palace Perry philosophy presently priests Prince provinces regarded revenue rice Rōjū rōnin Saigō Sakai Sakai Tadakiyo samurai Satsuma scholars sent Shimadzu Shimoda Shinto ships Shogun Shoshidai Sobayōnin soon Tairō temple things Titsingh Tokugawa Tokugawa Shogunate Tosa trade treaty Tsunayoshi Uraga Uyesugi vassals vessels yashiki Yedo Yoshimune Yoshimune's
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Page 171 - ... blades, and other arms are made here in the utmost perfection, as are also the richest dresses, and after the best fashion, all sorts of toys, puppets, moving their heads of themselves, and numberless other things, too many to be here mention'd. In short, there is nothing can be thought of, but what may be found at Miaco, and nothing, tho...
Page 807 - LXXI : — From of old the harmony between lord and vassal has been likened to that existing between water and fish. Ought it not to be so ? It is, indeed, no difficult thing ! If the golden rule, " Do not unto others that which you would not have others do to you," be so firmly grasped in the heart as not to be lost sight of for a moment, the force of example will induce inferiors to conform to this virtuous teaching ; and not only immediate attendants, but the population at large, will naturally...
Page 297 - Then he ordered us to take off our cappa, or cloak, being our garment of ceremony ; then to stand upright, that he might have a full view of us ; again, to walk, to stand still, to compliment each other, to dance, to jump, to play the drunkard, to speak broken Japanese, to read Dutch, to paint, to sing, to put our cloaks on and off.
Page 567 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light.
Page 802 - The samurai are the masters of the four classes. Agriculturists, artisans, and merchants may not behave in a rude manner toward samurai. The term for a rude man is "other-than-expected fellow"; and a samurai is not to be interfered with in cutting down a fellow who has behaved to him in a manner other than is expected.
Page 494 - Devotion to the memory of ancestors is the mainspring of all virtues. No one who discharges his duty to them will ever be disrespectful to the gods or to his living parents. Such a man also will be faithful to his prince, loyal to his friends, and kind and gentle to his wife and children.
Page 105 - I would give them cause to look on death as a most grievous thing, while yet they would not go away to a distance to escape from it. Though they had boats and carriages, they should have no occasion to ride in them. Though they had buff-coats and sharp weapons, they should not don or use them. I would make them return to the use of knotted cords (instead of written characters).
Page 172 - There are but few houses in all the chief streets where there is not something to be sold, and, for my part, I could not help admiring whence they can have customers enough for such an immense quantity of goods.
Page 492 - As it was Japan which lay directly opposite to the sun when it had sprouted upwards and separated from the earth, it is quite clear that Japan lies on the summit of the globe. It is equally evident that all other countries were formed at a much later period by the spontaneous consolidation of the foam of the sea and the collection of mud in various localities, when Izanagi and Izanami brought forth the eight islands of Japan, and separated the land from the water.
Page 568 - ... deck, notwithstanding there were crowds of officers and men around who could scarce repress the manifestation of their curiosity, the Japanese never for a moment lost their self-possession, but showed the utmost composure and quiet dignity of manner. They evinced an intelligent interest in all the various arrangements of the vessel, observed the big gun and rightly styled it a "Paixhan...