Excerpt from Fu-So Mimi Bukuro: A Budget of Japanese Notes

The "Budget of Notes, " now offered to the Public in a collected shape, has appeared from time to time in the columns of the Japan Weekly Mail, and forms a portion of the fruits of, the compiler's research and study during a residence in this country already extending over more than a decade.

While unable to claim for them that they exhaust the vast field of enquiry in which they have been gathered, he ventures to hope that his notes may suggest to the younger student a range of subjects for deeper investigation, and that all may find in them an interesting record of a condition of things already beginning to pass away. The compiler would add that his information has been obtained from native authorities of assured trustworthiness and from actual observation.

It is intended to continue the issue of these "Notes, " should the first part meet with a fair measure of encouragement.

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