Part IV
XXII. A Rural Railroad 273
XXIII. Adventures in a Bath at Kamogawa 284
XXIV. A Night at an Inn 295
XXV. Pretty Gen Tajima 306
XXVI. Superstitions and Yuki’s Eyes 315
XXVII. “Japanned English” and Art 321
XXVIII. Sayonara 335
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
At the top of the temple steps, above Lake Biwa
FACING PAGE
Peasants of the region speak of Fuji as O Yama, the “Honourable Mountain” 15
With his drum and his monkey he is Japan’s nearest equivalent for our old-style organ-grinder 23
The Japanese is not a slave to his possessions 40
The bath of the proletariat consists of a large barrel 47
Sawing and planing are accomplished with a pulling instead of a driving motion 49
Nor is the potency of Ceremonial Tea diminished by the fact that it is served by a lovely little Japanese hand 75
You cannot understand Japan without understanding the Japanese woman 75
A laundry on the river’s brim 94
No one without a sweet nature could smile the smile of one of these tea-house maids. 117
Cocoons—Five thousand silk worms make one kimono 118
Family luncheon à la Japonaise 120
The theatre street in Kyoto is one of the most interesting highways in the world 137
Digging clams at low-tide in Tokyo Bay 138
Kimi-chiyo was at almost every Japanese-style party I attended 142
A bill from the Kanetanaka teahouse 151
It takes two hours to do a geisha’s hair 162
Mrs. Charles Burnett in a 15th-Century Japanese Court costume 170
A teahouse garden, Tokyo 177
Viscount Kentaro Kaneko 197
Viscount Shibusawa 211
The film was not large enough to hold the family of this youngish fisherman at Nabuto 231
Tai-no-ura 285
The gates of the Tanjo-ji temple 287
Nor could a grande dame in an opera box have exhibited more aplomb 294
Pretty Gen was between the shafts 307
The middle-aged coolie hurriedly seated himself on the bank 310
Asakusa, the great popular temple of Tokyo 318
While Yuki’s fortune was being told I photographed her 319
Saki, the housekeeper, obligingly posed for me 336