Ten Weeks in JapanLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 459 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American amid appear arrival Berkeley British Budhist temple capital Captain character China Chinese Chinese character Christian Confucian Consul court crowd custom custom-house Daimios Desima Dutch dwelling emperor Emperor of Japan empire English European excited favour foreign funeral ground Harakiri harbour hill Hiragana holiday honour houses imperial intercourse island Japan Japanese Government Japanese language kami Kanagawa kokus language LIBRARY Loochoo Loochooan ment mercantile Mikado miles missionary moral Nagasaki native neighbouring norimon observation official ordinary palace party passed persons political population port portion posthumous names present prevails priests Prince of Mito Prince of Satsuma principal race racter religion religious residence respecting rice Roman Catholic sacred scene sect Shanghae ship side Sinto Siogoon soil sometimes spirit spot streets swords territorial tion Titsingh trade treaty Tycoon UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vessel visitors whole wooden Yakoneens Yeddo Yokuhama
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 204 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Seite 20 - Captain!' which was the signal for him to draw near and make his obeisances. Accordingly he crawled on his hands and knees to a place...
Seite 136 - ... anticipate this order, their heirs would run the risk of being deprived of their places and property. For this reason, all the officers of government are provided, in addition to their usual dress, and that which they put on in case of fire, with a suite necessary on such an occasion, which they carry with them whenever they travel from home.
Seite 136 - Among the great, this reading takes place in presence of their secretary and the inspector : the person who performs the principal part in this tragic scene, then addresses a speech or compliment to the company ; after which he inclines his head towards the mat, draws his sabre, and cuts himself with it across the belly, penetrating to the bowels.
Seite 136 - Siogoon, and persons holding civil offices under the government, are bound when they have committed any crime to rip themselves up, but not till they have received an order from the court to that effect ; for, if they were to anticipate this order, their heirs would run the risk of being deprived of their places and property. For this reason all the officers of government are provided...
Seite 53 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Seite 137 - When a person is conscious of having committed some crime and apprehensive of being thereby disgraced, he puts an end to his own life, to spare his family the ruinous consequences of judicial proceedings. This practice is so common that scarcely any notice is taken of such an event. The sons of all...
Seite 137 - The sons of all persons of quality exercise themselves in their youth, for five or six years, with a view that they may perform the operation, in case of need, with gracefulness and dexterity ; and they take as much pains to acquire this accomplishment, as youth among us to become elegant dancers or skilful horsemen : hence the profound contempt of death, which they imbibe in their earliest years. This disregard of death, which they prefer to the slightest disgrace, extends to the very lowest classes...
Seite 249 - Yokuhama (sic) an attractive locality to young unmarried foreigners by establishing at the edge of the settlement and on a site approached by a narrow drawbridge over the canal, one of those infamous public institutions which have been already adverted to, containing its two hundred female inmates dispersed over a spacious series of apartments and all under government regulation and control.
Seite 21 - ... to sing songs, to compliment one another, to be angry, to invite one another to dinner, to converse one with another, to discourse in a familiar way like father and son, to show how two friends or man and wife compliment or take leave of one another...