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DellveraDce or the Bolr SaIDt NlchlreD from tbe EJtecutlooel' or BlIJII.-[Pagf ~611. THE'lMII\..L1VO'S EMPIRE. BOOK II. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, OBSERVATIONS, AND STUDIES IN JAPAN, 1870-1874. By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, A:M., LATE or THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKIO, JAPAN. FIFTH EDITION, WITH SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS: JAPAN IN 1883, AND JAPAN IN 1886. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian o~ Congress, at Washington. Copyright, 188S, by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright, 1886, by HARPER & BROTHERS. .AU riglrU r""""" TO ZAPANESE LOVERS OP KNO~DGE IN EVERY AGE: THE DEAD, WHO I'IRST KINDLED THE SACRED FIRE, WHO PASSED ON THE roRCH; THE MAR'I,'YRS, WHO SUFFERED DEATH FOR THEm LOYALTY, PATRIOTISM, DEVOTION TO NATIONAL UNITY, RESTORATION, AND REGENERATION; THE STUDENTS, WHO, IN NOBLE TBmST FOR TRUTH, FOUND HONORED GRAVES IN ALIEN SOIL; THE LIVING, WITH WHOM RESTS THE FUTURE OF THEm BEAUTIFUL LAND, THIS SKETCH OF THEm COUNTRY AND PEOPLE, MADE IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH, AND SET DOWN WITHOUT EXTENUATION OR MALICE, IS, WITH FRATERNAL REGARD, DEDICATED BY THEm COIlRADK AND FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. JAPAN, once in the far-off Orient, is now our nearest Western neigh bor. Her people walk our streets i her youth sit, peers and rivals of our students, in the class-room i her art adorns our homes, and has opened to us a new Gate Beautiful. The wise men from the West are, at this writing, opening their treasures of tea,-silk, gold-lacquer, bronzes, and porcelain at the first centennial of our nation's birth.
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