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Title: Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 Clement, Ernest Wilson, 1860-1941
Subjects: Japan -- History 1185-1868
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ehicle, which hedescribes as both handsome and convenient. Eachnorimono traveller had with him a bottle of red wine,and another of Dutch ale, taken daily from the largestock provided for the journey, and preferred by theEuropeans to tea, which they regarded as a greatrelaxer of the stomach. Each traveller had also anoblong lackered box, containing a double slice ofbread and butter. In order to support the dignity ofthe Dutch East India Company, the bed equipage whichthey carried with them, consisting of coverlids, pillows,and mattresses, was covered with the richest open-workvelvets and silks. Their retinue, on horseback and onfoot, was numerous and picturesque. They were re-ceived everywhere with the honor and respect paid tothe princes of the land; and, besides, says Thunberg,were so well guarded that no harm could befall us,and, at the same time, so well attended that we had nomore care upon our minds than a sucking child; thewhole of our business consisting in eating and drinking,
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The Ear-Mound at Kyoto JOURNEY TO COURT 129 or in reading or writing for our amusement, in sleep-ing, dressing ourselves, and being carried about in ournorimono. At setting out, each of the three Dutchmen receivedfrom the purveyor fifty taels, for their individual ex-penses. This was the first Japanese money whichThunberg had seen, and this, with other sums doledout to them from time to time, was chiefly spent inpresents to their attendants. The disbursement on thisscore, at starting, amounted to ten taels each. In the early part of their journey, they followed asomewhat different road from Kampfers, all the wayby land, not crossing either the bay of Omura, nor thatof Shimabara. They passed, however, through Shiota,as Kampfer had done, famous for its large water-jars,and visited the hot springs in that neighborhood, andalso Saga, capital of the province of Hizen, remarkablefor its handsome women, its rice and its fine porcelain.The roads were found such as Kampfer had describedthem. P

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