CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Introduction [vii]

Foreword [xi]

I. Outlying Japan [1]

II. Historic Kyoto [23]

III. First Days at the Embassy [40]

IV. Court Functions [64]

V. Life in Tokyo [90]

VI. The Growing Empire [112]

VII. A Year of Festivals [136]

VIII. Cults and Shrines [164]

IX. New Light for Old [188]

X. Prose, Poetry and Plays [214]

XI. Amusements [245]

XII. Bear-hunting among the Ainus [274]

XIII. Motoring and Cruising [293]

XIV. Flowers, Indoors and Out [326]

XV. The Artist's Japan [350]

XVI. Sayonara Dai Nippon [375]

Bibliography [383]

Index [385]