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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE WORDS
- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
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- LETTER XVI
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- LETTER XVIII
- NOTES ON MISSIONS IN NIIGATA
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- LETTER XX
- LETTER XXI
- LETTER XXI.—(Concluded.)
- NOTES ON FOOD AND COOKERY
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- LETTER XXIV
- LETTER XXV
- LETTER XXV.—(Continued.)
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- 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
- 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
Kuroishi, August 5
After all, the waters did not fall as was expected, and I had to spend a fourth day at Ikarigaseki. We left early on Saturday, as we had to travel fifteen miles without halting. The sun shone on all the beautiful country, and on all the wreck and devastation, as it often shines on the dimpling ocean the day after a storm. We took four men, crossed two severe fords where bridges had been carried away, and where I and the baggage got very wet; saw great devastations and much loss of crops and felled timber; passed under a cliff, which for 200 feet was composed of fine columnar basalt in six-sided prisms, and quite suddenly emerged on a great plain, on which green billows of rice were rolling sunlit before a fresh north wind. This plain is liberally sprinkled with wooded villages and surrounded by hills; one low range forming a curtain across the base of Iwakisan, a great snowstreaked dome, which rises to the west of the plain to a supposed height of 5000 feet. The water had risen in most of the villages to a height of four feet, and had washed the lower part of the mud walls away. The people were busy drying their tatami, futons, and clothing, reconstructing their dykes and small bridges, and fishing for the logs which were still coming down in large quantities.
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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. 370 - 373Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880