Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- NOTES ON YEZO
- LETTER XXXVIII
- LETTER XXXIX
- LETTER XL
- LETTER XL.–(Continued)
- LETTER XLI
- LETTER XLI.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLII
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLIII
- LETTER XLIV
- LETTER XLIV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLV
- LETTER XLV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLVI
- ITINERARY OF TOUR IN YEZO
- LETTER XLVII
- LETTER XLVIII
- LETTER XLIX
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ–(Concluded.)
- LETTER L
- LETTER LI
- LETTER LII
- LETTER LIII
- LETTER LIV
- LETTER LV
- NOTES ON THE ISÉ SHRINES
- LETTER LVI
- LETTER LVII
- ITINERARY OF ROUTE FROM KIYÔTO TO YAMADA (SHRINES OF ISÉ), AND BY TSU TO KIYÔTO
- LETTER LVIII
- LETTER LIX
- A CHAPTER ON JAPANESE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- NOTES ON YEZO
- LETTER XXXVIII
- LETTER XXXIX
- LETTER XL
- LETTER XL.–(Continued)
- LETTER XLI
- LETTER XLI.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLII
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLII–(Continued)
- LETTER XLIII
- LETTER XLIV
- LETTER XLIV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLV
- LETTER XLV.–(Continued.)
- LETTER XLVI
- ITINERARY OF TOUR IN YEZO
- LETTER XLVII
- LETTER XLVIII
- LETTER XLIX
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ
- NOTES ON TÔKIYÔ–(Concluded.)
- LETTER L
- LETTER LI
- LETTER LII
- LETTER LIII
- LETTER LIV
- LETTER LV
- NOTES ON THE ISÉ SHRINES
- LETTER LVI
- LETTER LVII
- ITINERARY OF ROUTE FROM KIYÔTO TO YAMADA (SHRINES OF ISÉ), AND BY TSU TO KIYÔTO
- LETTER LVIII
- LETTER LIX
- A CHAPTER ON JAPANESE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
Summary
After a tremendous bluster for two days the weather has become beautifully fine, and I find the climate here more invigorating than that of the main island. It is Japan, but yet there is a difference somehow. When the mists lift they reveal not mountains smothered in greenery, but naked peaks, volcanoes only recently burnt out, with the red ash flaming under the noonday sun, and passing through shades of pink into violet at sundown. Strips of sand border the bay, ranges of hills, with here and there a patch of pine or scrub, fade into the far-off blue, and the great cloud shadows lie upon their scored sides in indigo and purple. Blue as the Adriatic are the waters of the land-locked bay, and the snowy sails of pale junks look whiter than snow against its intense azure. The abruptness of the double peaks behind the town is softened by a belt of cryptomeria, the sandy strip which connects the headland with the mainland heightens the general resemblance of the contour of the ground to Gibraltar, but while one dreams of the western world a kuruma passes one at a trot, temple drums are beaten in a manner which does not recall “the roll of the British drum,” a Buddhist funeral passes down the street, or a man-cart pulled and pushed by four yellow-skinned, little-clothed mannikins, creaks by, with the monotonous grunt of Ha huida.
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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. 11 - 19Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880