NARRATIVE OF

A THREE YEARS' RESIDENCE IN JAPAN.

VOL. II.

'Look ye! master Traveller: unless ye note something worth the seeing,
and come home wiser than ye went, I would n't give a stag's horn for all
your travels,'
OLD PLAY.

WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY AND ON WOOD.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL II.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.

1863.

Republished by

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A 35
1963
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Paper used in this edition is
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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE

INDICATIONS OF HOSTILE SPIRIT AMONG THE ARMED CLASSES-A

SERVANT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER SEVERELY WOUNDED WHILE

STANDING AT THE GATE OF THE LEGATION EVIL AUGURIES FOR

THE FUTURE-TRAITS OF NATIONAL CHARACTER FROM JAPANESE

RECORDS -CODE OF HONOUR -HOW IT OPERATES TO CHECK THE

VIOLENCE OF A TURBULENT CLASS OF FEUDAL RETAINERS-ITS NON-

APPLICATION IN THE PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS · FIRE AT THE

BRITISH LEGATION-PROOFS OF GOOD-WILL AND FRIENDLY INTEREST-

FIRST VISIT OF ENGLISH LADIES ΤΟ THE CAPITAL DANGEROUS

GROUND NOT THE LESS A BRITISH SUBJECT IN COLLISION WITH

JAPANESE POLICE AT KANAGAWA-A YACONIN SEVERELY WOUNDED. 1

NEW YEAR'S DAY 1861 —— THE

MENACE OF A GENERAL

CHAPTER II.

GREETING

IT BROUGHT IN YEDDO

MASSACRE OF FOREIGNERS VISIT AND

PROMPT DEPARTURE OF A BRITISH SQUADRON-ASSASSINATION IN THE

STREETS OF YEDDO OF MR. HEUSKIN, SECRETARY TO THE AMERICAN

LEGATION RENEWED MENACES DIRECTED AGAINST THE WHOLE OF

THE LEGATIONS PUBLIC FUNERAL OF THE MURDERED OFFICER

REPORTED SUICIDE OF HORI ORIBENO-NO-KAMI, ONE OF THE GOVER-

NORS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS - CONFERENCE OF THE FOREIGN REPRE-

SENTATIVES AT YEDDO

CHAPTER III.

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SECOND PHASE OF THE CRISIS

STRUCK

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FLAGS OF FOUR TREATY POWERS

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