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The Foundations of Japan

by J. W. Robertson Scott

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Currency, Weights and Measures and Official Terms
  3. 3Studies in a Single Prefecture (Aichi) [10] — Chapter I — The Mercy…
  4. 4Chapter II — "Good People Are Not Sufficiently Precautious"
  5. 5Chapter III — Early-Rising Societies and Other Ingenuous Activities
  6. 6Chapter IV — "The Sight of a Good Man Is Enough"
  7. 7Chapter V — Country-House Life
  8. 8Chapter VI — Before Okunitama-No-Miko-No-Kami
  9. 9Chapter VII — Of "Devil-Gon" and Yosogi
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Harvest from the Mud
  11. 11Chapter IX — The Rice Bowl, the Gods and the Nation
  12. 12Chapter X — A Troubler of Israel
  13. 13Chapter XI — The Idea of a Gap
  14. 14Chapter XII — To the Hills
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Dwellers in the Hills (Fukushima)
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Shrines and Poetry
  17. 17Chapter XV — The Nun's Cell
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Problems Behind the Picturesque
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The Birth, Bridal and Death of the Silk-Worm
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — "Girl Collectors" and Factories
  21. 21Chapter XIX — "Friend-Love-Society's" Grim Tale
  22. 22Chapter XX — "The Garden Where Virtues Are Cultivated"
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The "Tanomoshi"
  24. 24Chapter XXII — "Bon" Songs and the Silent Priest
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — A Midnight Talk
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Landlords, Priests and "Basha" (Tokushima, Kochi and…
  27. 27Chapter XXV — "Special Tribes"
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — The Story of the Blind Headman
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Up-Country Oratory
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Men, Dogs and Sweet Potatoes
  31. 31Chapter XXIX — Friends of Lafcadio Hearn
  32. 32Chapter XXX — The Life of the Peasants and Their Priests
  33. 33Chapter XXXI — "Bon" Season Scenes
  34. 34Chapter XXXII — Progress of Sorts
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII — Green Tea and Black
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV — A Country Doctor and His Neighbours
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — The Husbandman, the Wrestler and the Carpenter
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI — "They Feel the Mercy of the Sun"
  39. 39Reflections in Hokkaido — Chapter XXXVII — Colonial Japan and Its U…
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — Shall the Japanese Eat Bread and Meat?
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX — Must the Japanese Make Their Own "Yofuku"?
  42. 42Chapter XL — The Problems of Japan
  43. 43Appendices
  44. 44Index

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