Japanese things : being notes on various subjects connected with Japan, for the use of travelers and others / Basil Hall Chamberlain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlain, Basil Hall, 1850-1935.

Standardized Title:

Things Japanese

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Description and travel.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (582 p.)

Place of Publication:

Rutland, Vt., : Tuttle, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Armchair travelers beware!Japanese Things will lure you out of your cozy, comfy home and chair to an unusual country with bewitching manners and customs?and once you have succumbed to its spell you will never be the same. Here in one neat package you will meet the flavor, charm, and piquancy of old Japan?a revised reprint of one of the indispensable books on Japan, by the late Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain,eminent British scholar who in the latter part of the 19th century ""taught Japanese and Japan to the Japanese."" Many books in one, this monumental compilation contains s

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; Publisher's Foreword; Preface; Note on the Pronunciation of Japanese Words; Introductory Chapter; THINGS JAPANESE; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Appendix: The Invention of a New Religion; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4629-0872-1

OCLC:

821189491