The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and Its People...Gemmell, 1882 - 689 páginas |
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... Asakusa with its Shrines and its Fair , Pages 131-239 · • CHAPTER V. FIRST EXPERIENCES OF TÔKIYÔ LIFE . First View of the Mountains of Japan - In Yokohama Harbour - On the Bluff General Description of Yokohama - Its Trade- Chinamen's ...
... Asakusa with its Shrines and its Fair , Pages 131-239 · • CHAPTER V. FIRST EXPERIENCES OF TÔKIYÔ LIFE . First View of the Mountains of Japan - In Yokohama Harbour - On the Bluff General Description of Yokohama - Its Trade- Chinamen's ...
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... Asakusa , are pronounced almost as if spelt respectively Tôkyô , yash'ki , Iyeyas ' , and Asak'sa . To guard against mispronunciation , I have occasionally , in such circum- stances , written these vowels as and й . But , as a rule , a ...
... Asakusa , are pronounced almost as if spelt respectively Tôkyô , yash'ki , Iyeyas ' , and Asak'sa . To guard against mispronunciation , I have occasionally , in such circum- stances , written these vowels as and й . But , as a rule , a ...
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... Asakusa with its Shrines and its Fair . THE city of Tôkiyô , now the capital of the empire of Nihon , or Nippon , lies near the head of a shallow gulf on the eastern coast , and about midway between the southern and northern limits , of ...
... Asakusa with its Shrines and its Fair . THE city of Tôkiyô , now the capital of the empire of Nihon , or Nippon , lies near the head of a shallow gulf on the eastern coast , and about midway between the southern and northern limits , of ...
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... this main thoroughfare numerous branches lead north - eastward to Asakusa , or more directly eastward into the wide and densely peopled district of Honjo on the left permanently prosper . material prosperity may power for evil .
... this main thoroughfare numerous branches lead north - eastward to Asakusa , or more directly eastward into the wide and densely peopled district of Honjo on the left permanently prosper . material prosperity may power for evil .
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... miles in length . From the nava thoroughfare numerous branches lead north - eas to Asakusa , or more directly eastward into the wine and densely peopled district of Honjo or t bank of the river . Within a few hundred yards.
... miles in length . From the nava thoroughfare numerous branches lead north - eas to Asakusa , or more directly eastward into the wine and densely peopled district of Honjo or t bank of the river . Within a few hundred yards.
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The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and Its People... William Gray Dixon Visualização completa - 1882 |
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Amida Buddha appearance Asakusa bamboo banks Bashi beauty blue Buddha Buddhist buildings capital castle Chinese Chion-in Chôshiu Christian clans colour cryptomerias Daimiyôs dark dress Emperor empire English entered European eyes face feet feudal flowers foreign front Fuji Fuji-san gate ground Haku-san height hills honour horses imperial Iyeyasu Izanagi Japan Japanese Japanese language jin-riki-sha Kaga Kiyôto lake lake Biwa lanterns less light look mats ment Mikado miles Minister missionaries moat Mount Fuji mountain Nagasaki Nagoya Nikkô officers pack-horses pass picturesque pines plain present priests province religion rising river road roofs sacred Satsuma rebellion scene Sea of Japan sect seemed Shinran Shintô Shôgun shrine side slope squatted stone street summit Tate-yama temple tion Tôkiyô trees Uyeno valley village walk wood wooden yadoya yashiki Yedo Yokohama
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