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  • Douglas Gilbert Haring
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The Land of Gods and Earthquakes
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© 2019 Columbia University Press

© 2019 Columbia University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. List of Illustrations XI
  5. Sakura-No-Hana (Cherry Blossoms) XIII
  6. Getting a New God 1
  7. The Yokohama that Was 6
  8. Japan the Inscrutable 9
  9. Meat for Dinner 15
  10. More Deadly than the Male 19
  11. Shopping 24
  12. The Honorable Foxes 29
  13. Seventeen Million Extra Mouths 32
  14. Etiquette 37
  15. “ Eyes But They See Not . . .” 44
  16. Child Labor 46
  17. Cherry Blossoms and Saké 50
  18. A Ghost Dance of Old Japan 54
  19. When Truth Was Stranger than Fiction 59
  20. Where the Poor Mourn 64
  21. Rushing the Gates of Heaven 66
  22. In The Service of the Emperor 69
  23. Civic Responsibility 71
  24. The Artistry of the Japanese 74
  25. “The Dishonest Japanese” 79
  26. The Peerless Mountain 82
  27. Americanization 87
  28. Odds and Ends of New Japan 92
  29. Stop! Go! 98
  30. Every ’Rikisha Has His Day 100
  31. Burning Up With Tokyo 103
  32. When the Gods Go A-Riding 108
  33. When a Flivver Is Not a Flivver 112
  34. “Go Slow” in Tokyo 115
  35. The English Language in Japan 118
  36. Signs – But Not to Believe in 121
  37. The Melancholy Student 127
  38. Trying to Hustle the East 133
  39. Song Birds 138
  40. Drumming Up Religion 142
  41. Militarism 147
  42. The Mighty Stoop 149
  43. Laugh and Japan Laughs with You 151
  44. Himeji Castle 155
  45. Gen-Bu-Dō 160
  46. Beans to Rout the Devils 164
  47. Osaka: Japan’s Booster City 167
  48. Railway Travel 171
  49. Houses, Like Mountains High 176
  50. Toast Your Toes While You Sleep 182
  51. New Year’s 186
  52. Snow and Smoke 192
  53. After Nightfall in Tokyo 199
https://doi.org/10.7312/hari93698-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. List of Illustrations XI
  5. Sakura-No-Hana (Cherry Blossoms) XIII
  6. Getting a New God 1
  7. The Yokohama that Was 6
  8. Japan the Inscrutable 9
  9. Meat for Dinner 15
  10. More Deadly than the Male 19
  11. Shopping 24
  12. The Honorable Foxes 29
  13. Seventeen Million Extra Mouths 32
  14. Etiquette 37
  15. “ Eyes But They See Not . . .” 44
  16. Child Labor 46
  17. Cherry Blossoms and Saké 50
  18. A Ghost Dance of Old Japan 54
  19. When Truth Was Stranger than Fiction 59
  20. Where the Poor Mourn 64
  21. Rushing the Gates of Heaven 66
  22. In The Service of the Emperor 69
  23. Civic Responsibility 71
  24. The Artistry of the Japanese 74
  25. “The Dishonest Japanese” 79
  26. The Peerless Mountain 82
  27. Americanization 87
  28. Odds and Ends of New Japan 92
  29. Stop! Go! 98
  30. Every ’Rikisha Has His Day 100
  31. Burning Up With Tokyo 103
  32. When the Gods Go A-Riding 108
  33. When a Flivver Is Not a Flivver 112
  34. “Go Slow” in Tokyo 115
  35. The English Language in Japan 118
  36. Signs – But Not to Believe in 121
  37. The Melancholy Student 127
  38. Trying to Hustle the East 133
  39. Song Birds 138
  40. Drumming Up Religion 142
  41. Militarism 147
  42. The Mighty Stoop 149
  43. Laugh and Japan Laughs with You 151
  44. Himeji Castle 155
  45. Gen-Bu-Dō 160
  46. Beans to Rout the Devils 164
  47. Osaka: Japan’s Booster City 167
  48. Railway Travel 171
  49. Houses, Like Mountains High 176
  50. Toast Your Toes While You Sleep 182
  51. New Year’s 186
  52. Snow and Smoke 192
  53. After Nightfall in Tokyo 199
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