Unbeaten Tracks In Japan
, by Bird, Isabella Lucy
- ISBN: 9781419191701 | 1419191705
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
The daughter of a country parson, Isabella Bird was advised to travel for her health. Bird's compliance with her doctor's orders took her to the wildest regions of the American West, Malaysia, Kurdistan, Persia, the Moroccan desert, and China, among other places. One of nine popular accounts of her adventures around the world, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan traces the intrepid Victorian explorer's 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East.
| p. 1 | |
| First View of Japan | |
| A Vision of Fujisan | |
| Japanese Sampans | |
| Pullman Cars | |
| Undignified Locomotion | |
| Paper Money | |
| The Drawbacks of Japanese Travelling | |
| p. 8 | |
| Sir Harry Parkes | |
| An "Ambassador's Carriage" | |
| Cart Coolies | |
| p. 10 | |
| Yedo and Tokiyo | |
| The Yokohama Railroad | |
| The Effect of Misfits | |
| The Plain of Yedo | |
| Personal Peculiarities | |
| First Impressions of Tokiyo | |
| H. B. M.'s Legation | |
| An English Home | |
| p. 15 | |
| "John Chinaman" | |
| Engaging a Servant | |
| First Impressions of Ito | |
| A Solemn Contract | |
| The Food Question | |
| p. 21 | |
| Kwan-non Temple | |
| Uniformity of Temple Architecture | |
| A Kuruma Expedition | |
| A Perpetual Festival | |
| The Ni-o | |
| The Limbo of Vanity | |
| Heathen Prayers | |
| Binzuru | |
| A Group of Devils | |
| Archery Galleries | |
| New Japan | |
| An Elegante | |
| p. 32 | |
| Fears | |
| Travelling Equipments | |
| Passports | |
| Coolie Costume | |
| A Yedo Diorama | |
| Rice - Fields | |
| Tea - Houses | |
| A Traveller's Reception | |
| The Inn at Kasukabe | |
| Lack of Privacy | |
| A Concourse of Noises | |
| A Nocturnal Alarm | |
| A Vision of Policemen | |
| A Budget from Yedo | |
| p. 43 | |
| A Coolie falls ill | |
| Peasant Costume | |
| Varieties in Threshing | |
| The Tochigi Yadoya | |
| Farming Villages | |
| A Beautiful Region | |
| An In Memoriam Avenue | |
| A Doll's Street | |
| Nikko | |
| The Journey's End | |
| Coolie Kindliness | |
| p. 51 | |
| A Japanese Idyll | |
| Musical Stillness | |
| My Rooms | |
| Floral Decorations | |
| Kanaya and his Household | |
| Table Equipments | |
| p. 54 | |
| The Beauties of Nikko | |
| The Burial of Iyeyasu | |
| The Approach to the Great. Shrines | |
| The Yomei Gate | |
| Gorgeous Decorations | |
| Simplicity of the Mausoleum | |
| The Shrine of Iyemitsu | |
| Religious Art of Japan and India | |
| An Earthquake | |
| Beauties of Wood-carving | |
| p. 62 | |
| A Japanese Pack-Horse and Pack-Saddle | |
| Yadoya and Attendant | |
| A Native Watering-Place | |
| The Sulphur Baths | |
| A "Squeeze" | |
| p. 66 | |
| Peaceful Monotony | |
| A Japanese School | |
| A Dismal Ditty | |
| Punishment | |
| A Children's Party | |
| A Juvenile Belle | |
| Female Names | |
| A Juvenile Drama | |
| Needlework | |
| Caligraphy | |
| Arranging Flowers | |
| Kanaya | |
| Daily Routine | |
| An Evening's Entertainment | |
| Planning Routes | |
| The God-shelf | |
| p. 73 | |
| Darkness visible | |
| Nikko Shops | |
| Girls and Matrons | |
| Night and Sleep | |
| Parental Love | |
| Childish Docility | |
| Hair-dressing | |
| Skin Diseases | |
| p. 77 | |
| Shops and Shopping | |
| The Barber's Shop | |
| A Paper Waterproof | |
| Ito's Vanity | |
| Preparations for the Journey | |
| Transport and Prices | |
| Money and Measurements | |
| p. 80 | |
| Comfort disappears | |
| Fine Scenery | |
| An Alarm | |
| A Farm-house | |
| An unusual Costume | |
| Bridling a Horse | |
| Female Dress and Ugliness | |
| Babies | |
| My Mago | |
| Beauties of the Kinugawa | |
| Fujihara | |
| My Servant | |
| Horse-shoes | |
| An absurd Mistake | |
| p. 92 | |
| A Fantastic Jumble | |
| The "Quiver" of Poverty | |
| The Water-shed | |
| From Bad to Worse | |
| The Rice Planter's Holiday | |
| A Diseased Crowd | |
| Amateur Doctoring | |
| Want of Cleanliness | |
| Rapid Eating | |
| Premature Old Age | |
| p. 96 | |
| A Japanese Ferry | |
| A Corrugated Road | |
| The Pass of Sanno | |
| Various Vegetation | |
| An Unattractive Undergrowth | |
| Preponderance of Men | |
| p. 99 | |
| The Plain of Wakamatsu | |
| Light Costume | |
| The Takata Crowd | |
| A Congress of Schoolmasters | |
| Timidity of a Crowd | |
| Bad Roads | |
| Vicious Horses | |
| Mountain Scenery | |
| A Picturesque Inn | |
| Swallowing a Fish-bone | |
| Poverty and Suicide | |
| An Inn-kitchen | |
| England Unknown! | |
| My Breakfast Disappears | |
| p. 106 | |
| An Infamous Road | |
| Monotonous Greenery | |
| Abysmal Dirt | |
| Low Lives | |
| The Tsugawa Yadoya | |
| Politeness | |
| A Shipping Port | |
| A "Barbarian Devil" | |
| p. 109 | |
| A Hurry | |
| The Tsugawa Packet-boat | |
| Running the Rapids | |
| Fantastic Scenery | |
| The River-life | |
| Vineyards | |
| Drying Barley | |
| Summer Silence | |
| The Outskirts of Niigata | |
| The Church Mission House | |
| p. 114 | |
| Abominable Weather | |
| Insect Pests | |
| Absence of Foreign Trade | |
| A Refractory River | |
| Progress | |
| The Japanese City | |
| Water Highways | |
| Niigata Gardens | |
| Ruth Fyson | |
| The Winter Climate | |
| A Population in Wadding | |
| p. 120 | |
| The Canal-side at Niigata | |
| Awful Loneliness | |
| Courtesy | |
| Dr. Palm's Tandem | |
| A Noisy Matsuri | |
| A Jolting Journey | |
| The Mountain Villages | |
| Winter Dismalness | |
| An Out-of-the-world Hamlet | |
| Crowded Dwellings | |
| Riding a Cow | |
| "Drunk and Disorderly" | |
| An Enforced Rest | |
| Local Discouragements | |
| Heavy Loads | |
| Absence of Beggary | |
| Slow Travelling | |
| p. 128 | |
| Comely Kine | |
| Japanese Criticism on a Foreign Usage | |
| A Pleasant Halt | |
| Renewed Courtesies | |
| The Plain of Yonezawa | |
| A Curious Mistake | |
| The Mother's Memorial | |
| Arrival at Komatsu | |
| Stately Accommodation | |
| A Vicious Horse | |
| An Asiatic Arcadia | |
| A Fashionable Watering-place | |
| A Belle | |
| "Godowns" | |
| p. 137 | |
| Prosperity | |
| Convict Labour | |
| A New Bridge | |
| Yamagata | |
| Intoxicating Forgeries | |
| The Government Buildings | |
| Bad Manners | |
| Snow Mountains | |
| A Wretched Town | |
| p. 143 | |
| The Effect of a Chicken | |
| Poor Fare | |
| Slow Travelling | |
| Objects of Interest | |
| Kak'ke | |
| The Fatal Close | |
| A Great Fire | |
| Security of the Kuras | |
| p. 146 | |
| Lunch in Public | |
| A Grotesque Accident | |
| Police Inquiries | |
| Man or Woman? | |
| A Melancholy Stare | |
| A Vicious Horse | |
| An Ill-favoured Town | |
| A Disappointment | |
| A Torii | |
| p. 152 | |
| A Casual Invitation | |
| A Ludicrous Incident | |
| Politeness of a Policeman | |
| A Comfortless Sunday | |
| An Outrageous Irruption | |
| A Privileged Stare | |
| p. 155 | |
| The Necessity of Firmness | |
| Perplexing Misrepresentations | |
| Gliding with the Stream | |
| Suburban Residences | |
| The Kubota Hospital | |
| A Formal Reception | |
| The Normal School | |
| p. 159 | |
| A Silk Factory | |
| Employment for Women | |
| A Police Escort | |
| The Japanese Police Force | |
| p. 161 | |
| "A Plague of Immoderate Rain" | |
| A Confidential Servant | |
| Ito's Diary | |
| Ito's Excellences | |
| Ito's Faults | |
| A Prophecy of the Future of Japan | |
| Curious Queries | |
| Superfine English | |
| Economical Travelling | |
| The Japanese Packhorse again | |
| p. 165 | |
| The Symbolism of Seaweed | |
| Afternoon Visitors | |
| An Infant Prodigy | |
| A Feat in Caligraphy | |
| Child Worship | |
| A Borrowed Dress | |
| A Trousseau | |
| House Furniture | |
| The Marriage Ceremony | |
| p. 170 | |
| A Holiday Scene | |
| A Matsuri | |
| Attractions of the Revel | |
| Matsuri Cars | |
| Gods and Demons | |
| A Possible Harbour | |
| A Village Forge | |
| Prosperity of Sake Brewers | |
| A "Great Sight" | |
| p. 175 | |
| The Fatigues of Travelling | |
| Torrents and Mud | |
| Ito's Surliness | |
| The Blind Shampooers | |
| A Supposed Monkey Theatre | |
| A Suspended Ferry | |
| A Difficult Transit | |
| Perils on the Yonetsurugawa | |
| A Boatman Drowned | |
| Nocturnal Disturbances | |
| A Noisy Yadoya | |
| Storm-bound Travellers | |
| Hai ! Hai ! | |
| More Nocturnal Disturbances | |
| p. 183 | |
| Good-tempered Intoxication | |
| The Effect of Sunshine | |
| A tedious Altercation | |
| Evening Occupations | |
| Noisy Talk | |
| Social Gatherings | |
| Unfair Comparisons | |
| p. 187 | |
| Torrents of Rain | |
| An unpleasant Detention | |
| Devastations produced by Floods | |
| The Yadate Pass | |
| The Force of Water | |
| Difficulties thicken | |
| A Primitive Yadoya | |
| The Water rises | |
| p. 193 | |
| Scanty Resources | |
| Japanese Children | |
| Children's Games | |
| A Sagacious Example | |
| A Kite Competition | |
| Personal Privations | |
| p. 197 | |
| Hope deferred | |
| Effects of the Flood | |
| Activity of the Police | |
| A Ramble in Disguise | |
| The Tanabata Festival | |
| Mr. Satow's Reputation | |
| p. 200 | |
| A Lady's Toilet | |
| Hair-dressing | |
| Paint and Cosmetics | |
| Afternoon Visitors | |
| Christian Converts | |
| p. 203 | |
| A Travelling Curiosity | |
| Rude Dwellings | |
| Primitive Simplicity | |
| The Public Bath-house | |
| p. 206 | |
| A Hard Day's Journey | |
| An Overturn | |
| Nearing the Ocean | |
| Joyful Excitement | |
| Universal Greyness | |
| Inopportune Policemen | |
| A Stormy Voyage | |
| A Wild Welcome | |
| A Windy Landing | |
| The Journey's End | |
| p. 212 | |
| Form and Colour | |
| A Windy Capital | |
| Eccentricities in House Roofs | |
| p. 214 | |
| Ito's Delinquency | |
| "Missionary Manners" | |
| A Predicted Failure | |
| p. 216 | |
| A Lovely Sunset | |
| An Official Letter | |
| A "Front Horse" | |
| Japanese Courtesy | |
| The Steam Ferry | |
| Coolies Abscond | |
| A Team of Savages | |
| A Drove of Horses | |
| Floral Beauties | |
| An Unbeaten Track | |
| A Ghostly Dwelling | |
| Solitude and Eeriness | |
| p. 231 | |
| The Harmonies of Nature | |
| A Good Horse | |
| A Single Discord | |
| A Forest | |
| Aino Ferrymen | |
| "Les Puces ! Les Puces !" | |
| Baffled Explorers | |
| Ito's Contempt for Ainos | |
| An Aino Introduction | |
| p. 234 | |
| Savage Life | |
| A Forest Track | |
| Cleanly Villages | |
| A Hospitable Reception | |
| The Chief's Mother | |
| The Evening Meal | |
| A Savage Seance | |
| Libations to the Gods | |
| Nocturnal Silence | |
| Aino Courtesy | |
| The Chief's Wife | |
| p. 244 | |
| A Supposed Act of Worship | |
| Parental Tenderness | |
| Morning Visits | |
| Wretched Cultivation | |
| Honesty and Generosity | |
| A "Dug-out" | |
| Female Occupations | |
| The Ancient Fate | |
| A New Arrival | |
| A Perilous Prescription | |
| The Shrine of Yoshitsune | |
| The Chief's Return | |
| p. 254 | |
| Barrenness of Savage Life | |
| Irreclaimable Savages | |
| The Aino Physique | |
| Female Comeliness | |
| Torture and Ornament | |
| Child Life | |
| Docility and Obedience | |
| p. 262 | |
| Aino Clothing | |
| Holiday Dress | |
| Domestic Architecture | |
| Household Gods | |
| Japanese Curios | |
| The Necessaries of Life | |
| Clay Soup | |
| Arrow Poison | |
| Arrow Traps | |
| Female Occupations | |
| Bark Cloth | |
| The Art of Weaving | |
| p. 273 | |
| A Simple Nature-Worship | |
| Aino Gods | |
| A Festival Song | |
| Religious Intoxication | |
| Bear-Worship | |
| The Annual Saturnalia | |
| The Future State | |
| Marriage and Divorce | |
| Musical Instruments | |
| Etiquette | |
| The Chieftainship | |
| Death and Burial | |
| Old Age | |
| Moral Qualities | |
| p. 285 | |
| A Parting Gift | |
| A Delicacy | |
| Generosity | |
| A Seaside Village | |
| Pipichari's Advice | |
| A Drunken Revel | |
| Ito's Prophecies | |
| The Kocho's Illness | |
| Patent Medicines | |
| p. 289 | |
| A Welcome Gift | |
| Recent Changes | |
| Volcanic Phenomena | |
| Interesting Tufa Cones | |
| Semi-strangulation | |
| A Fall into a Bear-trap | |
| The Shiraoi Ainos | |
| Horsebreaking and Cruelty | |
| p. 296 | |
| The Universal Language | |
| The Yezo Corrals | |
| A "Typhoon Rain" | |
| Difficult Tracks | |
| An Unenviable Ride | |
| Drying Clothes | |
| A Woman's Remorse | |
| p. 299 | |
| "More than Peace" | |
| Geographical Difficulties | |
| Usu-taki | |
| Swimming the Osharu | |
| A Dream of Beauty | |
| A Sunset Effect | |
| A Nocturnal Alarm | |
| The Coast Ainos | |
| p. 306 | |
| The Sea-shore | |
| A "Hairy Aino" | |
| A Horse Fight | |
| The Horses of Yezo | |
| "Bad Mountains" | |
| A Slight Accident | |
| Magnificent Scenery | |
| A Bleached Halting-Place | |
| A Musty Room | |
| Aino "Good-breeding" | |
| p. 312 | |
| A Group of Fathers | |
| The Lebunge Ainos | |
| The Salisburia adiantifolia | |
| A Family Group | |
| The Missing Link | |
| Oshamambe | |
| Disorderly Horses | |
| The River Yurapu | |
| The Seaside | |
| Aino Canoes | |
| The Last Morning | |
| Dodging Europeans | |
| p. 320 | |
| Pleasant Last Impressions | |
| The Japanese Junk | |
| Ito Disappears | |
| My Letter of Thanks | |
| p. 322 | |
| Pleasant Prospects | |
| A Miserable Disappointment | |
| Caught in a Typhoon | |
| A Dense Fog | |
| Alarmist Rumours | |
| A Welcome at Tokiyo | |
| The Last of the Mutineers | |
| p. 325 | |
| Fine Weather | |
| Cremation in Japan | |
| The Governor of Tokiyo | |
| An Awkward Question | |
| An Insignificant Building | |
| Economy in Funeral Expenses | |
| Simplicity of the Cremation Process | |
| The Last of Japan | |
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