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What is Shinto? is the key question asked by all who seek to understand Japan and the Japanese, answered in this volume by Sir Ernest Satow, the great British scholar and diplomat. Shinto is the unique and little-known religious beliefs that flourished in Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Confucianism, but there are many versions. Which is the pure form? Satow begins with a detailed study of core Shinto rituals as revealed in ancie...

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the...

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Kinsé shiriaku - A History of Japan - from the first visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the capture of Hakodate by the Mikado's forces in 1869 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical litera...

Deutsche Flagge, sei gegrüßt! - Friedens- und Kriegsfahrten der Hanse, Kriegs- und Friedenstaten der deutschen Marine ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe.Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viel...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Central and Northern Japan: Being a Guide to Tokio, Kioto, Ozaka, and Other Cities, The Most Interesting Parts of the Main Island Between Köbe and Awomori, With Ascents of the Principal Mountains, and Descriptions of Temples, Historical Notes and Legends, With Maps and PlansIt h'ithmucbpleanrathatthaanthonacknovledgathainporta¿ a-iatanoaa¿wdadtotbaniaitaprcparationbyanmmm Alums than Mr racial thanharad...

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Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Central and Northern Japan: Being a Guide to Tokio, Kioto, Ozaka, and Other Cities, The Most Interesting Parts of the Main Island Between Kobe and Awomori, With Ascents of the Principal Mountains, and Descriptions of Temples, Historical Notes and LegendsIt is with much pleasure that the authors acknowledge the important existence afforded to them in its preparation by numerous friends. Amongst these th...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index…and beautiful layout to boot."Ernest Mason Satow (1843-1929), a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist, spent his young years as a translator and interpreter at the British Japan Consular Service between 1862 and 1883. Arriving in Yokohama in the wake of the Namamugi Incident, in which a British merchant was cut down from his ...

Excerpt from A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored, Recorded by a Diplomatist Who Took an Active Part in the Events of the TimeWhen I departed from Siam in 1887 I laid the unfinished manuscript aside, and did not look at it again until September 1919, when some of my younger relations, to whom I had shown it, suggested that it ought to be comp...

Excerpt from Kuaiwa Hen, Twenty-Five Exercises: In the Yedo Colloquial, for the Use of Students, With NotesIn Part II a thick type, unfortunately deficient in accented vowels, has been used to mark the passages explained. The accents must therefore be carefully supplied by comparison with the transliterated text.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis...

Excerpt from Kuaiwa Hen, Vol. 2: Twenty-Five Exercises in the Yedo Colloquial, for the Use of Students, With Notes, NotesPage 34, 1. 21. For mama read mono. 36, l. 21. Insert comma after na. 63, l. 19. For [just] read just. 96, last line. Goza read gozai. 99, last line but one. For ao read no. 108, 1. 25. For It. Read it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Excerpt from Japanese Chronological TablesTable VI is a list of the historical names of all the Mikados in alphabetical order, exhibiting the duration of the reign of each.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, p...