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AN ENGLISH GIRL IN JAPAN

(Page 24.

A LITTLE NASAN APPEARED.

AN ENGLISH GIRL
IN JAPAN

BY

ELLA M. HART BENNETT

SECOND EDITION

Illustrated

LONDON

WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO., LTD.

3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.

First Edition, May, 1904

Second Edition, June, 1906

TO

MY FRIEND MARY

A SOUVENIR

OF MANY PLEASANT DAYS

Though wide the ocean now dividing us,

Neer let its waters separate our souls.

(Japanese quotation.)

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

The following sketches of life in Japan and the voyage there and back are taken from a diary which I kept during my travels.

Since writing my little book of personal reminiscences, which, thanks to indulgent readers and kind friends, is now republished in a second edition, many and great changes have taken place in the Far East.

Japan has now become a great Power--not only in the East, but also in the West. It is little Japan no longer; or, rather, its greatness is now understood and acknowledged by all the world. Western civilization has taken a firm hold on the Japanese people. They have been rapidly adopting, and, in fact, improving on, Western methods, customs, and manners. The fear of the globe-trotter of to-day is whether he will be in time to see the Japan of his dreams and of romance, before this great Western wave of progress and reform has divested the Land of the Rising Sun of its quaint originality and fascinating charm.

E. H. B.

1906.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

The following sketches of life in Japan and the voyage there and back are taken from a diary which I kept during my travels.

As Japan and its wonderful little people have come so much before the world during the last few years, and especially at this time are one of the chief factors in the crisis in the Far East, I thought that these reminiscences and anecdotes taken from real life might be of interest.

I am indebted to the editors of the Cornhill, Sketch, Sunday, and the Buenos Aires Standard for the reproduction of some of the following sketches.

ELLA HART BENNETT.

1904.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

ON THE WAY

PAGE

I start on my travels--A fair Theosophist--Life on an American liner--Arrival at New York--Delmonicos---The Hotel Waldorf--Niagara Falls--Across the Lakes--The prairies--A quiet Sunday

CHAPTER II

IN THE ROCKIES

First sight of the Rockies--Stay at Banff--Indians and salmon--Arrival at Vancouver--The Empress of India--Chinese passengers--The missing day--A court-martial--First sight of Japan

CHAPTER III

EARLY DAYS IN JAPAN

A new friend--A Japanese dinner--Japanese temples--An earthquake--A fire in Yokohama

CHAPTER IV

A JAPANESE HARROGATE

A trip to the Japanese Harrogate--A curious travelling companion--A Japanese inn--A mountain ride--At the sulphur springs--A sulphur bath--A night in a tea-house--Sad news

CHAPTER V

AN IMPERIAL GARDEN-PARTY

Silk dresses and frock-coats--A disappointed Colonel--The Royal procession--The chrysanthemums--I am presented--A Japanese play--Japanese royal sport--The Mikado and his subjects

CHAPTER VI

JAPANESE LADIES

Their habits and ways--Home life--The Honourable Bath--Count Ito and his wife--Old Japan--Loyalty to husbands--A mixed marriage--Curious customs--Japanese sayings

CHAPTER VII

JAPANESE CHILDREN

Boys and girls--Games--The Feast of Dolls--School life--The Hina Matsuri--The Feast of the Carp--The Bon Matsuri, the festival for dead children

CHAPTER VIII

SERVANTS IN JAPAN

Their politeness--Frequency of their baths--Always ready for a nap--Mrs. Peter Potts

CHAPTER IX

SOME FESTIVALS AND A FUNERAL

The Imperial Silver Wedding--Parade of the troops--The wedding feast--The Chinese ball in Tokio--A gay assembly--A Royal funeral--Strange customs

CHAPTER X

CHANG, MY CHOW

His first appearance--Adventures and mishaps--Companions in the Hospital--Chang goes to church--Facing the enemy

CHAPTER XI

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CHANG

The tale of a tub--Sayonara--Board-ship acquaintance--Queer company

CHAPTER XII

PAUL AND VIRGINIA

Life on a tea-estate--My animal friends--Two brown bears--Brutus, the monkey--Always in mischief--The Brazilian macaw

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

A little Nasan appeared

In the Heart of the Rockies

Tum adain soone! sayonara!

One of the Shinto Temples

The Great Bronze Buddha

We start for Kodzu

Idaka, the Guide

Prepared for the Night

Our Invitation-cards were very large and thick

The Gardens are very beautiful

Quaint Signboards in some of the Streets, Tokio: Butchers, Umbrella Shop

Quaint Signboards in some of the Streets, Tokio: Poultry and Egg Shop, Japanese Tailor

Many are distinctly pretty when young

A Japanese Lady of the Upper Class

A Tea-house Veranda

How picturesque they looked!

Japanese Children

Japanese Servants

That Delightful Hotel in the Hills

Three Friends

The Garden of the Little Tea-house

The Kind Old Isha-san

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