RARE DAYS IN JAPAN

“Yes! ’tis a very pleasant land,

Filled with joys on either hand,

Sweeter than aught beneath the sky,

Dear island of the dragon-fly!”

[From an old poem composed by the Mikado Gomei, who died A. D. 641.]

[COUNTRY SCENES AND COUNTRY CUSTOMS]

RARE DAYS IN
JAPAN

BY
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD, LL. D.

Author of “In Korea with Marquis Ito,”
“Knowledge, Life, and Reality,”
“Philosophy of Conduct,”
etc., etc.

ILLUSTRATED

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1910

Copyright, 1910, By
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

Published, September, 1910