Japanese Things: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan, for the Use of Travelers and Others

by Basil Hall Chamberlain

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804807132
• ISBN13: 9780804807135
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Greatest book ever about Japan

This book was written a hundred years ago, it therefore describes a Japan that often doesn't exist anymore, but this makes it more interesting. It is a great resource about things, that were lost. The single articles are full of information, always interesting and always have a personal note. It has an article about "Cats" but also about "Treaties with foreign powers", about "The status of women" but also about "Fashionable Crazes". Some things are slanted and reflect the spirit of the time, like when he talks of "Japanese People" but even then it is interesting, just seeing how our understanding has changed. You can read it from "A to Z" or you can read single articles, whichever way, the book is going to be intersting and informative and as an added bonus you get a good dose of British humor. This is one of my favourite books about Japan and I have a lot.