Japan and Her People, المجلد 1

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Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859 - 447 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 194 - ... odd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly, as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the creature alive in his net, but that it had died shortly after being taken out of the water ; and he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in more ways than one. The exhibition of the...
الصفحة 438 - A duty of (5) five per cent, shall be paid on the following articles : All articles used for the purpose of building, rigging, repairing or fitting out of ships. Whaling gear of all kinds. Salted provisions of all kinds. Bread and breadstuff's.
الصفحة 64 - It is of considerable size; its inhabitants have fair complexions, are well made, and are civilized in their manners. Their religion is the worship of idols. They are independent of every foreign power, and governed only by their own kings.
الصفحة 222 - He ordered us to take off our kappas, or cloaks, being our garments of ceremony ; then to stand upright, that he might have a full view of us ; again to walk, to stand still, to compliment each other, to dance, to jump, to play the drunkard, to speak broken Japanese, to read Dutch, to paint, to sing, to put our cloaks on and off.
الصفحة 44 - ... must on no account take the law into your own hands, and beat them off or shoot them. To kill one of them is a capital crime, whatever mischief the brute may have done you. In every town there are Guardians of the Dogs, and to these officers notice must be given in case of any canine misdemeanour, these guardians alone being empowered to punish the dogs. Every street must keep a certain number of these animals, or at least provide them with victuals ; huts, or dog-hospitals stand in all parts...
الصفحة 317 - ... portions, namely, first, the first act of one, then the first act of a second, then the first act of a third ; then, returning to the first play, the second act of it, and, successively, the second acts of the second and third plays, and so on till all the three plays are played out. By this curious arrangement, any of the audience who wish only to see one of these pieces or who have not patience to sit out the whole, may withdraw to attend to business or to other diversion, or to smoke their...
الصفحة 83 - The doors and windows of the offender's house are closed, generally for a hundred days, his employments are suspended, salary, if any, stopped, and the friend and the barber alike forbidden entrance. Every household is held bound to produce a man capable of bearing arms ; a division of five constitutes a company ; twenty-five such companies are arrayed under an officer, and...
الصفحة 388 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know that the King of Spain himself, or the Christian's God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
الصفحة 198 - Accordingly, though we travelled pretty fast ourselves, yet we often met the baggage and fore-troops, consisting of the servants and inferior officers, for two days together, dispersed in several troops, and the prince himself followed but the third day attended with his numerous court, all marching in admirable order.
الصفحة 230 - Fusio but a Japanese hour, which is equal to two of ours. Whoever kills a beast, or is present at an execution, or attends a dying person, or comes into a house, where a dead body lies, is Fusio that day. But of all the things, which make us impure, none is reckoned so very contagious, as the death of Parents and near relations.

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