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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE WORDS
- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
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- NOTES ON MISSIONS IN NIIGATA
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- NOTES ON FOOD AND COOKERY
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- LETTER XXXI
- LETTER XXXII
- LETTER XXXIII
- LETTER XXXIII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXIV
- LETTER XXXV
- LETTER XXXVI
- LETTER XXXVII
- Map of Japan
- 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
- LETTER VIII
- LETTER IX
- LETTER IX.—(Continued.)
- LETTER X
- LETTER XI
- LETTER XII
- LETTER XIII
- LETTER XIII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XIII.—(Completed.)
- LETTER XIV
- LETTER XV
- LETTER XV.—(Concluded)
- LETTER XVI
- LETTER XVII
- LETTER XVIII
- NOTES ON MISSIONS IN NIIGATA
- LETTER XIX
- LETTER XX
- LETTER XXI
- LETTER XXI.—(Concluded.)
- NOTES ON FOOD AND COOKERY
- LETTER XXII
- LETTER XXIII
- LETTER XXIV
- LETTER XXV
- LETTER XXV.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXV.—(Concluded.)
- LETTER XXVI
- LETTER XXVII
- LETTER XXVIII
- LETTER XXIX
- LETTER XXX
- LETTER XXXI
- LETTER XXXII
- LETTER XXXIII
- LETTER XXXIII.—(Continued.)
- LETTER XXXIV
- LETTER XXXV
- LETTER XXXVI
- LETTER XXXVII
- Map of Japan
Summary
Shirasawa, July 29
Early this morning the rain-clouds rolled themselves up and disappeared, and the bright blue sky looked as if it had been well washed. I had to wait till noon before the rivers became fordable, and my day's journey is only seven miles, as it is not possible to go farther till more of the water runs off. We had very limp, melancholy horses, and my mago was half-tipsy, and sang, talked, and jumped the whole way. Saké is frequently taken warm, and in that state produces a very noisy but good-tempered intoxication. I have seen a good many intoxicated persons, but never one in the least degree quarrelsome, and the effect very soon passes off, leaving, however, an unpleasant nausea for two or three days, as a warning against excess. The abominable concoctions known under the names of beer, wine, and brandy, produce a badtempered and prolonged intoxication, and delirium tremens, rarely known as a result of saké drinking, is being introduced under their baleful influence.
The sun shone gloriously and brightened the hillgirdled valley in which Odaté stands into positive beauty, with the narrow river flinging its bright waters over green and red shingle, lighting it up in glints among the conical hills, some richly wooded with coniferœ, and others merely covered with scrub, which were tumbled about in picturesque confusion. When Japan gets the sunshine, its forestcovered hills and garden-like valleys are turned into paradise. In a journey of 600 miles there has hardly been a patch of country which would not have been beautiful in sunlight.
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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. 347 - 354Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880