The pier-glaas is happily unknown in Japan; a small disk of polished metal represents the mirror, and is wisely kept in a box till needed!
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. i. p. 20.
Owing to the sensible civil service of England, scholars and diplomates are appointed to these duties in the East; and as a natural result all the honors,—political, commercial, and literary,—have, with few exceptions, been won by Englishmen.
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. ix. part ii. p. 191.
Ibid., vol. x. Supplement.
Ibid., vol. iii. part ii. p. 131.
In Anam I noticed that the bed-rooms were indicated by hanging cloth partition as well as by those made of matting.
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. vi. part i. p. 109.
Satow gives quite a different rendering of this passage.
Translations of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. ii. p. 119.