Unbeaten Tracks In Japan

by Bird, Isabella Lucy

• ISBN13: 9781419191701
• ISBN10: 1419191705
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Kessinger Pub

Summary

The daughter of a country parson, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health. Bird's compliance with her doctor's orders took her to the wildest regions of the American West, Malaysia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Moroccan desert, and China, among other places. One of nine popular accounts of her adventures around the world, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan traces the intrepid Victorian explorer's 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East.

Table of Contents

	p. 1
First View of Japan
A Vision of Fujisan
Japanese Sampans
Pullman Cars
Undignified Locomotion
Paper Money
The Drawbacks of Japanese Travelling
	p. 8
Sir Harry Parkes
An "Ambassador's Carriage"
Cart Coolies
	p. 10
Yedo and Tokiyo
The Yokohama Railroad
The Effect of Misfits
The Plain of Yedo
Personal Peculiarities
First Impressions of Tokiyo
H. B. M.'s Legation
An English Home
	p. 15
"John Chinaman"
Engaging a Servant
First Impressions of Ito
A Solemn Contract
The Food Question
	p. 21
Kwan-non Temple
Uniformity of Temple Architecture
A Kuruma Expedition
A Perpetual Festival
The Ni-o
The Limbo of Vanity
Heathen Prayers
Binzuru
A Group of Devils
Archery Galleries
New Japan
An Elegante
	p. 32
Fears
Travelling Equipments
Passports
Coolie Costume
A Yedo Diorama
Rice - Fields
Tea - Houses
A Traveller's Reception
The Inn at Kasukabe
Lack of Privacy
A Concourse of Noises
A Nocturnal Alarm
A Vision of Policemen
A Budget from Yedo
	p. 43
A Coolie falls ill
Peasant Costume
Varieties in Threshing
The Tochigi Yadoya
Farming Villages
A Beautiful Region
An In Memoriam Avenue
A Doll's Street
Nikko
The Journey's End
Coolie Kindliness
	p. 51
A Japanese Idyll
Musical Stillness
My Rooms
Floral Decorations
Kanaya and his Household
Table Equipments
	p. 54
The Beauties of Nikko
The Burial of Iyeyasu
The Approach to the Great. Shrines
The Yomei Gate
Gorgeous Decorations
Simplicity of the Mausoleum
The Shrine of Iyemitsu
Religious Art of Japan and India
An Earthquake
Beauties of Wood-carving
	p. 62
A Japanese Pack-Horse and Pack-Saddle
Yadoya and Attendant
A Native Watering-Place
The Sulphur Baths
A "Squeeze"
	p. 66
Peaceful Monotony
A Japanese School
A Dismal Ditty
Punishment
A Children's Party
A Juvenile Belle
Female Names
A Juvenile Drama
Needlework
Caligraphy
Arranging Flowers
Kanaya
Daily Routine
An Evening's Entertainment
Planning Routes
The God-shelf
	p. 73
Darkness visible
Nikko Shops
Girls and Matrons
Night and Sleep
Parental Love
Childish Docility
Hair-dressing
Skin Diseases
	p. 77
Shops and Shopping
The Barber's Shop
A Paper Waterproof
Ito's Vanity
Preparations for the Journey
Transport and Prices
Money and Measurements
	p. 80
Comfort disappears
Fine Scenery
An Alarm
A Farm-house
An unusual Costume
Bridling a Horse
Female Dress and Ugliness
Babies
My Mago
Beauties of the Kinugawa
Fujihara
My Servant
Horse-shoes
An absurd Mistake
	p. 92
A Fantastic Jumble
The "Quiver" of Poverty
The Water-shed
From Bad to Worse
The Rice Planter's Holiday
A Diseased Crowd
Amateur Doctoring
Want of Cleanliness
Rapid Eating
Premature Old Age
	p. 96
A Japanese Ferry
A Corrugated Road
The Pass of Sanno
Various Vegetation
An Unattractive Undergrowth
Preponderance of Men
	p. 99
The Plain of Wakamatsu
Light Costume
The Takata Crowd
A Congress of Schoolmasters
Timidity of a Crowd
Bad Roads
Vicious Horses
Mountain Scenery
A Picturesque Inn
Swallowing a Fish-bone
Poverty and Suicide
An Inn-kitchen
England Unknown!
My Breakfast Disappears
	p. 106
An Infamous Road
Monotonous Greenery
Abysmal Dirt
Low Lives
The Tsugawa Yadoya
Politeness
A Shipping Port
A "Barbarian Devil"
	p. 109
A Hurry
The Tsugawa Packet-boat
Running the Rapids
Fantastic Scenery
The River-life
Vineyards
Drying Barley
Summer Silence
The Outskirts of Niigata
The Church Mission House
	p. 114
Abominable Weather
Insect Pests
Absence of Foreign Trade
A Refractory River
Progress
The Japanese City
Water Highways
Niigata Gardens
Ruth Fyson
The Winter Climate
A Population in Wadding
	p. 120
The Canal-side at Niigata
Awful Loneliness
Courtesy
Dr. Palm's Tandem
A Noisy Matsuri
A Jolting Journey
The Mountain Villages
Winter Dismalness
An Out-of-the-world Hamlet
Crowded Dwellings
Riding a Cow
"Drunk and Disorderly"
An Enforced Rest
Local Discouragements
Heavy Loads
Absence of Beggary
Slow Travelling
	p. 128
Comely Kine
Japanese Criticism on a Foreign Usage
A Pleasant Halt
Renewed Courtesies
The Plain of Yonezawa
A Curious Mistake
The Mother's Memorial
Arrival at Komatsu
Stately Accommodation
A Vicious Horse
An Asiatic Arcadia
A Fashionable Watering-place
A Belle
"Godowns"
	p. 137
Prosperity
Convict Labour
A New Bridge
Yamagata
Intoxicating Forgeries
The Government Buildings
Bad Manners
Snow Mountains
A Wretched Town
	p. 143
The Effect of a Chicken
Poor Fare
Slow Travelling
Objects of Interest
Kak'ke
The Fatal Close
A Great Fire
Security of the Kuras
	p. 146
Lunch in Public
A Grotesque Accident
Police Inquiries
Man or Woman?
A Melancholy Stare
A Vicious Horse
An Ill-favoured Town
A Disappointment
A Torii
	p. 152
A Casual Invitation
A Ludicrous Incident
Politeness of a Policeman
A Comfortless Sunday
An Outrageous Irruption
A Privileged Stare
	p. 155
The Necessity of Firmness
Perplexing Misrepresentations
Gliding with the Stream
Suburban Residences
The Kubota Hospital
A Formal Reception
The Normal School
	p. 159
A Silk Factory
Employment for Women
A Police Escort
The Japanese Police Force
	p. 161
"A Plague of Immoderate Rain"
A Confidential Servant
Ito's Diary
Ito's Excellences
Ito's Faults
A Prophecy of the Future of Japan
Curious Queries
Superfine English
Economical Travelling
The Japanese Packhorse again
	p. 165
The Symbolism of Seaweed
Afternoon Visitors
An Infant Prodigy
A Feat in Caligraphy
Child Worship
A Borrowed Dress
A Trousseau
House Furniture
The Marriage Ceremony
	p. 170
A Holiday Scene
A Matsuri
Attractions of the Revel
Matsuri Cars
Gods and Demons
A Possible Harbour
A Village Forge
Prosperity of Sake Brewers
A "Great Sight"
	p. 175
The Fatigues of Travelling
Torrents and Mud
Ito's Surliness
The Blind Shampooers
A Supposed Monkey Theatre
A Suspended Ferry
A Difficult Transit
Perils on the Yonetsurugawa
A Boatman Drowned
Nocturnal Disturbances
A Noisy Yadoya
Storm-bound Travellers
Hai ! Hai !
More Nocturnal Disturbances
	p. 183
Good-tempered Intoxication
The Effect of Sunshine
A tedious Altercation
Evening Occupations
Noisy Talk
Social Gatherings
Unfair Comparisons
	p. 187
Torrents of Rain
An unpleasant Detention
Devastations produced by Floods
The Yadate Pass
The Force of Water
Difficulties thicken
A Primitive Yadoya
The Water rises
	p. 193
Scanty Resources
Japanese Children
Children's Games
A Sagacious Example
A Kite Competition
Personal Privations
	p. 197
Hope deferred
Effects of the Flood
Activity of the Police
A Ramble in Disguise
The Tanabata Festival
Mr. Satow's Reputation
	p. 200
A Lady's Toilet
Hair-dressing
Paint and Cosmetics
Afternoon Visitors
Christian Converts
	p. 203
A Travelling Curiosity
Rude Dwellings
Primitive Simplicity
The Public Bath-house
	p. 206
A Hard Day's Journey
An Overturn
Nearing the Ocean
Joyful Excitement
Universal Greyness
Inopportune Policemen
A Stormy Voyage
A Wild Welcome
A Windy Landing
The Journey's End
	p. 212
Form and Colour
A Windy Capital
Eccentricities in House Roofs
	p. 214
Ito's Delinquency
"Missionary Manners"
A Predicted Failure
	p. 216
A Lovely Sunset
An Official Letter
A "Front Horse"
Japanese Courtesy
The Steam Ferry
Coolies Abscond
A Team of Savages
A Drove of Horses
Floral Beauties
An Unbeaten Track
A Ghostly Dwelling
Solitude and Eeriness
	p. 231
The Harmonies of Nature
A Good Horse
A Single Discord
A Forest
Aino Ferrymen
"Les Puces ! Les Puces !"
Baffled Explorers
Ito's Contempt for Ainos
An Aino Introduction
	p. 234
Savage Life
A Forest Track
Cleanly Villages
A Hospitable Reception
The Chief's Mother
The Evening Meal
A Savage Seance
Libations to the Gods
Nocturnal Silence
Aino Courtesy
The Chief's Wife
	p. 244
A Supposed Act of Worship
Parental Tenderness
Morning Visits
Wretched Cultivation
Honesty and Generosity
A "Dug-out"
Female Occupations
The Ancient Fate
A New Arrival
A Perilous Prescription
The Shrine of Yoshitsune
The Chief's Return
	p. 254
Barrenness of Savage Life
Irreclaimable Savages
The Aino Physique
Female Comeliness
Torture and Ornament
Child Life
Docility and Obedience
	p. 262
Aino Clothing
Holiday Dress
Domestic Architecture
Household Gods
Japanese Curios
The Necessaries of Life
Clay Soup
Arrow Poison
Arrow Traps
Female Occupations
Bark Cloth
The Art of Weaving
	p. 273
A Simple Nature-Worship
Aino Gods
A Festival Song
Religious Intoxication
Bear-Worship
The Annual Saturnalia
The Future State
Marriage and Divorce
Musical Instruments
Etiquette
The Chieftainship
Death and Burial
Old Age
Moral Qualities
	p. 285
A Parting Gift
A Delicacy
Generosity
A Seaside Village
Pipichari's Advice
A Drunken Revel
Ito's Prophecies
The Kocho's Illness
Patent Medicines
	p. 289
A Welcome Gift
Recent Changes
Volcanic Phenomena
Interesting Tufa Cones
Semi-strangulation
A Fall into a Bear-trap
The Shiraoi Ainos
Horsebreaking and Cruelty
	p. 296
The Universal Language
The Yezo Corrals
A "Typhoon Rain"
Difficult Tracks
An Unenviable Ride
Drying Clothes
A Woman's Remorse
	p. 299
"More than Peace"
Geographical Difficulties
Usu-taki
Swimming the Osharu
A Dream of Beauty
A Sunset Effect
A Nocturnal Alarm
The Coast Ainos
	p. 306
The Sea-shore
A "Hairy Aino"
A Horse Fight
The Horses of Yezo
"Bad Mountains"
A Slight Accident
Magnificent Scenery
A Bleached Halting-Place
A Musty Room
Aino "Good-breeding"
	p. 312
A Group of Fathers
The Lebunge Ainos
The Salisburia adiantifolia
A Family Group
The Missing Link
Oshamambe
Disorderly Horses
The River Yurapu
The Seaside
Aino Canoes
The Last Morning
Dodging Europeans
	p. 320
Pleasant Last Impressions
The Japanese Junk
Ito Disappears
My Letter of Thanks
	p. 322
Pleasant Prospects
A Miserable Disappointment
Caught in a Typhoon
A Dense Fog
Alarmist Rumours
A Welcome at Tokiyo
The Last of the Mutineers
	p. 325
Fine Weather
Cremation in Japan
The Governor of Tokiyo
An Awkward Question
An Insignificant Building
Economy in Funeral Expenses
Simplicity of the Cremation Process
The Last of Japan
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