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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE WORDS
- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
- LETTER I
- LETTER II
- LETTER III
- LETTER IV
- LETTER V
- LETTER VI
- LETTER VII
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- LETTER IX.—(Continued.)
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- LETTER XXI.—(Concluded.)
- NOTES ON FOOD AND COOKERY
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Summary
Kaminoyama
A severe day of mountain travelling brought us into another region. We left Ichinono early on a fine morning, with three pack-cows, one of which I rode [and their calves], very comely kine, with small noses, short horns, straight spines, and deep bodies. I thought that I might get some fresh milk, but the idea of anything but a calf milking a cow was so new to the people that there was a universal laugh, and Ito told me that they thought it “most disgusting,” and that the Japanese think it “most disgusting” in foreigners to put anything “with such a strong smell and taste” into their tea! All the cows had cotton cloths, printed with blue dragons, suspended under their bodies to keep them from mud and insects, and they wear straw shoes and cords through the cartilages of their noses. The day being fine, a great deal of rice and saké on the move, and we met hundreds of pack-cows, all of the same comely breed, in strings of four.
We crossed the Sakuratogé, from which the view is beautiful, got horses at the mountain village of Shirakasawa, crossed more passes, and in the afternoon reached the village of Tenoko. There, as usual, I sat under the verandah of the Transport Office, and waited for the one horse which was available. It was a large shop, but contained not a single article of European make.
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- Unbeaten Tracks in JapanAn Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé, pp. 251 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010