The two drawings are by the Japanese artist, Keichū Takénouche. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in the story "Yuki-Onna" described on page 113, and the drawing facing page 180 illustrates the Butterfly Dance, described on page 203.
The Same. London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1904, 12mo.
Articles and Reviews:—
Athenæum, The, September 17, 1904, p. 373.
Atlantic Monthly, June, 1904, vol. 93, p. 857.
Bookman, The, November, 1904, vol. 20, p. 159.
No. 18.
1904. (Japanese Characters.) JAPAN: An Attempt at Interpretation. By Lafcadio Hearn. Honorary Member of the Japan Society, London; formerly Lecturer in the Imperial University of Tōkyō (1896-1903), and Fourteen Years a Resident of Japan.
"Perhaps all very marked national characters can be traced back to a time of rigid and pervading discipline."
—Walter Bagehot.
New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Macmillan and Company, Ltd.), 1904. (Published, September, 1904.)
8vo., 2 p. l., pp. 541, coloured frontispiece, brown cloth, black and gold lettering, gilt top.
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