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CHAP. XIII - THE CHANGING EAST

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Anna M. Stoddart
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Mrs. Bishop left Shanghai in ss. Kaisow (June 4, 1895) for Nagasaki, intending to spend the summer in Japan. She went first to Osaka, and then to Tokyo, and from Osaka wrote to Miss Cullen commenting on the news, which had reached her, of Professor Blackie's death and funeral in March: “I was very fond of him. Doubtless the pure in heart has seen God.” About herself she continues:

I am ill with rheumatism and sciatica, and am going next week to Tokyo for the best advice and afterwards to some baths. My plan is to get quietness and seclusion if possible, and to wear Chinese dress, in which it is possible to be easy and comfortable. I am in rags and most of my stockings have no feet. My boots were so absolutely done that I had to wear straw shoes over them, but I have now got Japanese shoes. You would be surprised with my photos. I have made great advances lately and print with a highly enamelled surface like a professional.

At Tokyo she was the guest of Bishop and Mrs. Bickersteth, the first of many visits to them. Of these Mrs. Bickersteth writes:

It was in June 1895 that Mrs. Bishop first became our honoured guest in Tokyo, though both my husband and I had met her before in England. […]

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The Life of Isabella Bird , pp. 303 - 343
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011
First published in: 1906

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