Young Americans in Japan : or, The adventures of the Jewett family and their friend Oto Nambo

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JAPANESE HOUSE CLEANING. Young Americans in Japan OR THE ADVENTURES OF THE JEWETT FAMILY AND THEIR FRIEND OTO NAMBO By EDWARD GREEY AUTHOR OF "BLUE JACKETS" "THROUGH THE HEART OF JAPAN" "A TRIP TO TOKIO" AND ONE OF THE TRANSLATORS OF THE JAPANESE ROMANCE "THE LOYAL RONINS" One Hundred and Seventy-One Illustrations COVER DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM 1882. Copyright, 1881, By LEE AND SHEPARD. Boston Stereotype Foundry, no. 4 pkajil street

Preface

. Twenty-seven years ago an armed fleet " thundered at the gates of Japan," and, in the name of humanity, requested that its harbors should "be opened to the distressed ships of Western nations." I was a member of that expedition, and heard the haughty reply of the official, which was thus interpreted : " Return from whence you came. No foreigner is permitted to land on our sacred soil ! " How we received this command is a matter of history. When I first landed in Japan, the feudal system was in full force ; the Mikado (Emperor) was virtually a prisoner in Kioto, and none of his subjects were allowed to leave the country. To-day the Mikado rules the land, moves among his subjects like a Western monarch, and is seeking, by every means, to elevate the condition of his people. Japan ese merchants are doing business in the principal cities of the world, her earnest students are to be found in our great colleges, and her art illuminates our homes, and has won the admiration of all nations.

Before the first treaty was signed, our ships visited Yezo, and for some time cruised in Japanese waters. I thus had an opportunity of seeing the islands, and of becoming thoroughly acquainted with the coast. At a later period, I returned to the country, lived among its estimable people, studied their language and literature, and, what they term, "learned their hearts." This book describes the adventures of an American family and a young Japanese who has been educated in the States. They land at Nagasaki, proceed overland to Kokura, cross the strait to Shimonoseki, remain awhile in the province of Nagato, sail up the Inland Sea to Tokio, visit some of its celebrated places, and enjoy the delights of the New Year's festivities, conducted in the olden style.

PREFACE.

. In Johnnie, Fitz, and Sallie Jewett I have endeavored to depict the keen intelligence of our rising generation ; in Oto Nambo, the modern Japanese, who, in adopting Western civilization, has abandoned the traditions of his forefathers ; in Mr. and Mrs. Nambo and their friends, the old conservatives who consider the telegraph an invention of demons. The story, though essentially a work of fiction, is founded on facts that have come under my personal observation, and is intended to make young Americans better acquainted with their good neighbors who inhabit the " Land of the Rising Sun," and to show that all the world is more or less akin, and that wherever the human soul is planted, though obscured by manners and customs the opposite of our own, it bears the stamp of the Divine Image. EDWARD GREEY.

Manchester-by-the-Sea, 1881. NOTE. In designing the cover, I have followed the old Japanese style, and represented a Shutendoji (red demon) supporting a vase, from which issues smoke, that forms the framework of the illustrations. The incident of Johnnie and Fitz, dressed in native costume, riding in a jin-riki-sha, is described in Chapter XVIII., and that of Izakura, the cook, diverting his son and frightening his wife by putting on a tengu (long-nosed sprite) mask, is told in Chapter XX. The little sketch of the Professor and the bozu (Buddhist clergyman) illustrates a circumstance that occurs in the same chapter. On the back of the cover are two scrolls, inscribed with Japanese characters, the upper being translated thus : " Boston, Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1881." The lower bears my own name, etc., below which is my Japanese seal, — a petal and stamen of a cherry-blossom.

EDWARD GREEY. CONTENTS. CHAPTEE pA<"_ I. An Unexpected Visitor i II. Landing in Japan 14 III. Sights of Nagasaki 33 IV. Nagasaki by Night 47 V. A Trip into the Country 62 VI. How They Kept the Fourth of July . . . 81 VII. Killing Time at an Inn 98 VIII. Farewell to Nagasaki 120 IX. A Pleasant Journey 138 X. Oto's Manly Avowal 167 XI. How the Japanese Hunt Monkeys . . . 194 XII. From Shimonoseki to Yokohama .... 209 XIII. Yokohama . . .218 XIV. Tokio 235 XV. Scenes in the Capital ... . . 261 XVI. The Temple of Kuwannon at Asakusa . . 278 XVII. A Pilgrimage to the Spring Hill Temple . . 296 XVIII. From Tokio to Kanasawa . . . . .314 XIX. The Great Bronze Image of Buddha . . . 328 XX. Japanese New Year's Festivities .... ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE PACE House-cleaning at Mr. Kingen's, Shadows on the Wall ... 54 Frontispiece Playing Cards .... 55 A Famous Singer .... 57 The Japanese Doll's arrival in America Night Watchmen .... 58 1 Applying the Moxa ... 60 Oto Nambo 3 Nambo's Honored Father The Golden River .... 63 7 Itinerant Showmen ... 65 Oto's Daimio S Pilgrim and Peep-show ... 66 Dai-koku-fuku-jin 10 Japanese Pilot Boat Restaurant for the Sale of Foreign *5 The Island of Decima Food 68 17 "Abraham Lincoln" and his A Street in Nagasaki 19 A Dealer in Sandals 21 Grooms 75 A Kago (litter) Praying away Sins .... 79 22 Old-clothes Vender Dealer in Broken Crockery . . 83 23 Acrobats and Contortionists . . 85 A Blacksmith ?4 A Fortune-teller .... 86 Portuguese Bridge, Nagasaki 25 Norimono (enclosed litter) and Bearers Cultivating Rushes for Matting . 88 26 A Picnic 89 Miraculous Spring in a Tree . . 92 Rope-maker -7 Travelling in a Rain-storm . . 97 Toy-maker 28 Toys representing the God Daruma, 29 The Japanese Signs for the Hours, 99 Woman Spinning Herons and small Birds . . 100 30 A Miniature Garden 31 Badger on a Bamboo . . . 101 32 Geese, Swallows, and Kingfisher . 102 Interior of Sleeping- Apartment Kitchen-maid 34 Mekura-hinin, Blind Beggars . . 102 Buddhist Temple, Nagasaki 39 Playing the Koto (harp) . . . 103 Buddhist Bozu (ministers) at Prayer, 41 Master Shiuichiro and his Nurse . 104 Service in the Buddhist Temple 43 A Palmister and his Customers . 107 Picture of Buddhist Last Judgment, The Sick Landlord and the Quacks, The Game of " Catching the Fox," 45 Drug-store 109 48 An Engraver of Pipes . . . 113 51 A Peddler of Salt . . . .114 53 Performing Boys . . . .116 A Peripatetic Astronomer ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE PAGE Sleeping Women . . . . 118 A Wedding Ceremony . . .191 Smoking Apparatus . . ' 119 Monkey Peak 199 Bell Tower 121 A Japanese Monkey . . . 201 Hideyoshi, likewise called Taiko- Sama 124 The Village of Soft- Water . . 203 Pavilion of Sanuki . . . 210 Giving Alms for the Benefit of the Dead .... 126 Fishing by Torchlight . . . 214 Yokohama from the Bluff" . . 219 A Visit of Condolence . . .127 Japanese Builders at Work . . 221 Reaping the Rice Crop . . .128 A Foreign Dog and its Attendant 222 Threshing and preparing Rice . 129 Buddhist Funeral Services . . 130 A Chinese Clerk .... 223 Burning a Body . . . .132 A Curio Store .... 225 At the Ancestral Tombs . . 133 The Benten Tori (avenue) and Torii ..... 227 The Fan Dance .... 136 A Yadoya (inn) .... 139 The Goddess Benten . . . 228 A Gossiping Coolie . . . 142 The Gateway of Mr.

Nambo's Establishment .... 238 Tattooed Be/to (grooms) . . 143 A Girdle Dyer .... 144 Mr. Nambo's Home . . . 241 Woman Bowing Cotton . . . 145 O-Kiku (Miss Chrysanthemum) . 240 Sawing Timber .... 146 Ruins of a Gateway . . . 245 Shinto Temples 147 Oto's Foster-Mother, Mitsu-ro (Mrs. Beeswax) . . . 247 Shinto Priest and Priestess . . 150 Ainos from Yezo . . . .152 The Indignant Noble . . . 250 Battledore and Shuttle . . 153 Ronins in Ambush .... 254 A Primitive Scare-crow. . . 155 A Farmer and his Family . . 156 A Daimio and his Retainers . . 253 A Soldier of Old Japan . . . 255 A Bird-rattle 157 An Allegorical Picture . . . 256 Charcoal-seller and Wood-cutter . 157 A Japanese Caricature . . . 257 Blessing the Water . . 159 Izakura ...... 264 Shimonoseki from the heights of Kokura 161 The Great Fish Market of Tokio, 267 The Venders of Cuttle-fish . . 268 Town of Shimonoseki . . . 162 Cattle-market 269 The Ruins ofthe Forts of Shimonoseki 163 The Lion of the Corea Dancing . 271 The Lion Refreshing Himself . 274 Street Acrobats . . . .276 A Passenger Boat . . . .165 The Avenue of Asakusa . . 283 A Sword-trick .... 282 A Japanese Junk . . . .166 The Long Flight of Steps . . 170 The Torii at the Landing-place . 171 Acrobats 285 Bozu taking Exercise . . .174 Distributing Charms, Porch of the Temple of Kuwannon . . 289 Bozu at Dinner .... 176 Night Scene Outside the Temple . 295 Oto's Uncle 177 Kato Kiyomasa . . . .179 A Japanese Cemetery . . . 297 Japanese Cook's Fan . . . 181 Avenue leading to the Shrine of Inari-Sama .... 304 The Tea Garden of Seven-views . 30c Festival in Honor of Takenouchi . 183 A Street Performance . . .186 ine 1 ea uaraen ot beven-views . 305 Mr. Katayuma Denshichi, the A Conjuror 187 A Dealer in Bronzes . . . 188 Poet 307 The Faithful Lovers of the Takasago Pine 190 Onono Komachi .... 309 Ladies Braiding Silk-cord . .

ILLUSTRATIONS XIII PAGE PAGK Mob before a Sake Shop . . 349 Embossing Visiting Cards . . 350 Welcoming the New Rice . . 351 Afoc/ii-maVers .... 353 A Poet at Work .... 354 New Year's Presents. . . . 356 The Daimio and Hatamoto . . 357 The Ceremony of Oniwa Soto . 358 The Little Girls' Festival . . 361 Song-sellers in the Street . . 364 Eta Dancers 367 Streets of Tokio, New Year's Afternoon 369 Modern Japanese .... 371 Fox marked " Owari " (The End) . 372 The Festival of Yorimitsu . . 317 Fuku-roku-jin (Longevity God, . 319 A Circulating Library . . . 320 A Lantern-maker .... 324 A Shinto Ceremony . . . 326 The Pagoda and Treasury of the Temple of Hachiman . . 330 Approach to the Temple of Hachiman Kamakoura . . . 332 Terrace of the Temple of Hachiman, 333 View of the Island of Enoshima . 335 Statue of Dai-Butsu (Great Buddha) 337 View of Lake Hakone . . . 343 Jin-riki-sha Man on a Cold Day . I THE JAPANESE DOLL'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA. YOUNG AMERICANS IN JAPAN

Chapter I. An Unexpected Visitor

Many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant. — HtlDIBRAS. ONE glorious afternoon in September, two boys and a little girl "were earnestly engaged in the walled garden at the rear of their home, putting the finishing touches to a strange looking instrument that the elder of the lads had constructed out of an old pump-stock. " I guess this will do," he observed, as he snapped the trigger. "Now if any more of those tramps dare to enter our premises we will give them a dose of cucumbers." "A dose of what, Johnnie?" inquired his sister Sallie, a dark-eyed child of nine. "What do you mean?" "We 're going to load our cannon with those yellow-skins," answered her brother Fitz, speaking for Johnnie, who was busy with his apparatus. " Won't the tramps run when they find our shot flying about their ears?"

"Bet they will," murmured John, as he pointed the muzzle of the machine toward the door in the garden-wall. "If the selectmen of this place cannot manage the tramps, we will." The weapon was an ingenious affair, furnished with a spring that threw any light substance, such as a young squash or a ripe cucumber, several yards, and was the result of much thought on the part of its inventor. Sallie watched Johnnie fire the cannon, and as he sent the missives " bash " against the door, clapped her hands and cried, "Oh, how splendid!" "Yes," he proudly returned; "I'm thinking of asking papa to take out a patent on this. 'There's millions in it!' ~ Jewett's Tramp Terror' would look well in print. Come, Fitz, more ammunition." Fitz rammed the spring home with a broom-handle, and then picking up a mellowlooking vegetable, inserted the charge in the mouth of the gun.

As he did so, some one knocked on the door; but the youngsters being much inter ested in their amusements, did not hear the summons. "Try a shot, Sallie," urged Johnnie, offering his sister the trigger-line. "Oh, I'm afraid!" she said. "Afraid!" shouted Fitz. "What a coward you are, Sallie; why, it's as easy as anything. Give the line a jerk, the trigger is released, and whiz goes the cucumber. Oh, it's jolly fun!" The little girl still hesitated; noticing which, Johnnie said, in a coaxing tone, "Oh, Sallie, don't be afraid; this isn't like a real gun ; it won't kick." While her brothers were persuading her, the person at the garden-door knocked a second time. This summons was also unnoticed, Sallie having advanced to the rear of the cannon and timidly taken the line from her elder brother.

"Sister!" cried Fitz, "don't shut both your eyes; if you do, you will never be able to hit a tramp. Come, give the line a pull. Jemmy! — what cowards you girls are! " This taunt put Sallie on her mettle, and, after tightening the line, she jerked it smartly and released the trigger. At the same instant the appli cant for admission raised the latch, and throwing open the door entered the garden. "Whiz — bash!" went the cucumber, striking the lintel and scattering the seeds all over the intruder. "My!" ejaculated Sallie, start ing back with affright. " What's that?" "Hello — are you a tramp?' cried Fitz, gaping at their victim "Goodness!" gasped Johnnie "It's — a — lady!" The cause of their amazement was a pale-faced, gentle-looking individual, dressed in a white robe, dark petticoat, and wide-sleeved over-garment of silk, who regarded them for an instant, then said, in very excellent English: "A thousand pardons.

Can you inform me where Professor Jewett lives?" OTO NAMHO. Johnnie glanced first at his sister, next at his brother, and finally at the speaker; then pointing behind him, replied: — "Yes, Miss; that is the Professor's house, and we are his children." The stranger gravely brushed off some seeds that had fallen upon his bushy, black hair, and smiling, said: "I am not a young lady, I am a boy; my name is Oto Nambo." "Are you a Chinese?" bluntly inquired Fitz. "No," proudly answered the lad; " I am a Japanese. My countrymen were never conquered by the Tartars. I am afraid I have interrupted your sport." While he was speaking, Sallie, who felt ashamed of the reception they had given the stranger, hurried toward the house. Johnnie briefly explained his object in making the cannon; then inquired: " How came you to enter by the garden door?

" The young Japanese told them that he had been so directed by a woman whom he had met on the street, adding, merrily: " She evidently took me for a Chinese, and thought I was in the laundry business." He was so gentlemanly and good-natured that both Johnnie and Fitz took a liking to him right away, and when they had shaken his hand, conducted him indoors to the library, where they found their father engaged in writing. "Well, sir," inquired the Professor, after he had welcomed the visitor, "what can I do for you?" Oto produced a letter from the sleeve of his outer garment, and handing the missive to his host, remarked: "Your brother, Doctor Jewett, of Tokio, was my honored instructor. That note will explain my presence here." The gentleman opened the envelope and read: " Imperial Hospital, Tokio, Japan, "August i, 18 — .

"Dear John: — This is to introduce you to Mr. Oto Nambo, one of my pupils, and the son of my good friend Nambo, of whom you have often heard me speak. Oto desires to study the higher branches of chemistry, so I have advised him to visit the States and place himself under your instruction. He is a truly noble, gentle, honorable boy, and I would much like to hear that he had become an inmate of your family. I have known Oto from his childhood, and feel as much regard for him as though he were a relative. Give him a hearty welcome, for the sake of your brother, ,. tt j .. hTT7r,r»sin fwftt " Fitzgerald Jewett. " P. S. — Remember me affectionately to your wife, and to Sallie and the boys." As the Professor concluded reading this, Mrs. Jewett and her daughter entered the room. " Ellen," he said, introducing their visitor, "this is Mr. Oto Nambo, a friend of my brother Fitz."

The hostess and Sallie bowed to the Japanese, who pro foundly returned their salute, and said: " Ladies, I am delighted to have the happiness of meeting you. I trust you are both in the enjoyment of good health." He neither, by word nor look, showed that he had pre viously seen the little girl, who felt truly grateful for his consideration. " He is real good," she thought. " Some boys would have been mad at having cucumbers fired at them." After supper the Professor and Mrs. Jewett held a consul tation, and that evening they invited Oto to take up his abode with them. "Won't it be jolly?" cried Fitz. "You can teach us Japanese, and we'll instruct you in base-ball and lots of things. Say, why do you not wear American clothes?" Oto smiled and replied: " I intend to do so now." "I thought most of your countrymen did," observed Johnnie.

"All our officials, and many of my friends have adopted Western costume," answered the boy. " I have long desired to do so, but my mother said, No; so I have continued to wear my native dress. When I bade her good-by, she whispered, " My son, if, on arriving in America, you find it best to wear the costume of the people, I will make no further objection." Mrs. Jewett, who was highly pleased with his speech, glanced toward Fitz, then said to their guest: "Do Japanese boys always obey their mothers?" " Of course, madam," he replied, as though surprised at her question. "Nobody ever thinks of disobeying their parents." Fitz, who was blushing like a girl, bit his lips, and muttered: " I'm afraid we American boys are not like you. We try to obey, but sometimes slump up." "Do what?" quietly inquired Oto.

" He means that he cannot always accomplish his wish," said Mrs. Jewett. " Slump is not a very pretty word to use." After the gas was lighted, the children asked Oto about his family, whereupon he produced a photograph of his father, and remarked: "This was taken some years ago, when my honored father was the chief councillor of our dai-mio (great lord)." " How funny," observed Johnnie. " Why did he have the top of his head shaved, and the hair on the sides gathered up into that gun-hammer queue?" "The custom originated when my warrior countrymen began to "wear helmets," answered Oto. " If they had per mitted their hair to grow as I do, they could not have worn NAMBO'S HONORED FATHER. those metal head-coverings. You will observe my parent has his pipe in his left hand, and his sword on the mat near him.

Now the wearing of swords by the nobility and gentry is abolished, and no one is ever seen with them." "What is that little parcel lying before your father?" inquired Sallie, who took a deep interest in the boy's descrip tion. "And what is that tube between the sword and cup?" " The parcel is my fath er's tobacco-pouch, and what you call a tube is his pipe-case. A Japanese pipe only holds a tiny pinch of tobacco. The vessels on the stand upon my father's right are a tea-pot, a kettle for hot water, and a bowl for tea sediment." "What is the screen behind him?" asked John nie. " It represents the par tition that divided the pho tographer's studio from his living-room. The picture was not taken in our . „ home. OTO'S DAI-MIO. Oto then showed them another portrait, and said "This is the photograph of our dai-mio or lord, in his old costume."

"Is that a dunce's cap?" demanded Fitz. " No," answered Oto ; " it was the court head-dress of the dai-mio. I can assure )*ou my late lord is anything but a dunce. The robes that appear so strange to you really gave an air of dignity to their wearer." " Why is he kneeling, and why did he have such long pants?" asked Johnnie. " He is not kneeling," answered Oto. " It was the custom for our nobles to wear flowing trousers, just as your ladies wore long trains to their dresses." " We don't now," said Sallie. "More do we," said Oto. "All those things belong to the past, — to old Japan, when the shogun or military power governed my country. Now the mikado (emperor) is the sole ruler, our officials wear foreign uniforms, and our soldiers and sailors are dressed like your own." "Where did you learn to speak such excellent English?" inquired Fitz.

" In Tokio. I have been studying your language for five years, and am a graduate of the Imperial College." " Come, children," remarked Mrs. Jewett, " it is growing late. Professor, "will you show our guest to his room? Mr. Oto, I have had your chamber made as comfortable as possible." Oto bade his new friends good-night, and followed his host, who, as they ascended the stairs, said: " I am sorry we could not give you rice and fish for supper. After this, you shall have them at every meal." " Oh, I can eat American food," was the quiet rejoinder. "Please do not prepare rice especially for me; I am not so fond of it as you may imagine, and can eat almost anything you do." When they entered the sleeping-apartment, the Professor pointed to a corner in which some wadded quilts were neatly arranged, and observed: " This is the best we can do to-night.

Mrs. Jewett had the bedstead and furniture removed, and new matting laid, so as to make your room as homelike as possible. We wish you to imagine you are in your own house. There is a bath in the next room, and hot water. Please turn off the gas, and do not blow it out or you will be smothered. If you require any more quilts, ring, and I will send some to you. Good nicd-t." As the gentleman descended the stairs, Oto smiled, and thought: "They imagine, because I am a Japanese, I cannot sleep in a bed. How comical! Well, as they have taken all this trouble to strip the apartment, and make it homelike for me, I'll not undeceive them." Thus thinking, he went to his trunk, and, after searching awhile, discovered a paper bearing a representation of Dai koku (the god of luck). This he laughingly affixed to the wall; having done which, he made up the quilts Japanese fashion, as bed and bed-clothes, and retired for the night.

The next morning, Fitz entered the room and announced that breakfast was almost ready; then, as he regarded the picture ofthe god, said: "Hello! who is that? — another relative of yours?" Oto's eyes twinkled, as he replied: "No; that is Dai-koku fuku-jin. Your good parent has kindly en deavored to render my room like that of a Japanese, so I have com pleted the illusion by adding a pic- DAI-KOKU FUKU-JIN. ture of the god of luck, which was slipped into my trunk by dear old Mitsu-ro, my foster-mother." "Day-cookyou is a comical-looking critter," said Fitz o-r*n ning at the picture; "tell me something about him. Who was he, anyhow? " Oto laughed heartily, and answered: " Dai-koku, who is by foreigners termed the god of wealth, or luck, was the son of Sos-anu-no-mikoto. He is a very popular deity in my country, and is always represented as standing on two bales of rice, with a sack of money on his back.

In his right hand he holds a miner's hammer, signifying: 'if you would have lots of money in your bag and rice in your storeroom, you must work for it as a miner does with his tools.'" "He's awfully homely, isn't he?" mused Fitz. "Yes," chuckled Oto. "We do not consider him very handsome. Still, many of my countrymen and women vene rate him, and make offerings before his picture." "Say, Oto, you don't believe in any such nonsense, do you? Why do you keep that thing? It is idolatrous." The Japanese boy laughed, and replied: " Oh! I have no faith in Dai-koku; I merely put him there to carry out your good mother's idea. You will find such a picture in nearly all our houses." When Fitz related the foregoing conversation to his mother, she thought for a while, then said to her husband: "Professor, I believe Oto would like an American bed; he is too proud to acknowledge his people's way of sleeping is not as comfortable as ours."

" Yes, I agree with you, wife ; we will treat this young Japanese just as we would an American guest. It is amazing how readily his countrymen adopt our ways." After a good breakfast, during which Oto showed a thorough appreciation of American beefsteak and buckwheat cakes, and did not ask for rice, the boys conducted him to a clothing store, where he purchased a hat and an excellent outfit. This done, he had his hair cut, and on his return, when he donned his new garments, he looked as neat and nice as either of his friends. On discovering that the furniture had been restored to his room, he took down the picture of Dai-koku, remarking, with a merry laugh: "This was never intended to ornament an American apartment. I will not destroy it, as it was the last gift of my good old Mitsu-ro, but will pack it away with my kimono (long robe) and hakama (trousers).

Now I am in America I am going to be an American." From that day he became like one of the family, and by his gentleness of manner, decision of character, nobility of nature, and general amiability, made numerous friends in Cromlech. He taught his host, hostess, and their children to speak, read, and write Japanese; and entering the college of which the Professor was one of the faculty, passed his examinations with credit to himself and instructors. One evening, five years after Oto's arrival in the States, the Professor said to his family: " I have been thinking of going to Japan with Oto, and of making a tour through the country. What do you say to it?" " If we can accompany you, Yes," answered Mrs. Jewett. "Johnnie, Fitz, and Sallie would thoroughly enjoy the trip, and I would much like to visit 'The Land of the Rising Sun.": At first the Professor demurred, saying it would cost too much.

However, upon making a calculation, he agreed to take them, remarking: "You will understand one thing: we are to go by sailing ship, and upon our arrival in the country to endeavor to live in Japanese fashion. We will land in the south at Nagas-aki, and travel inland through Hizen and Chikuzen, cross the strait to Shimonoseki, embark on board a native steamer, and pro ceed up the Inland Sea to Tokio, where we will remain six months." " Hurrah! " cried Johnnie and Fitz. "Isn't it splendid?" said Sallie. "Oh, I do so want to visit Japan." "Yes, I like the idea vastly," observed her mother. "What do you say, Oto ? " " I think you will have a good time, see lots of interesting places and things, and learn all about my countrymen and women," answered the Japanese. " Your decision makes me very happy." On the first of March, the Professor, his wife, family, and friend were on their way to the far East.

Chapter II. Landing In Japan

They sailed away for a far-off strand, And for weeks and weeks never sighted land. — Miller. THE " Northern Star," which carried the Jewetts to Japan, Was a slow-sailing ship, and it was not until daybreak of the first of July that the look-out man announced: "Land on our port-bow!" "Hurry up, Fitz! — hurry up, Oto! Come, Sallie, and father and mother," shouted Johnnie, who was on deck when the sailor made the discovery. " Turn out and see the glorious land of the Rising Sun." It did not take them very long to make their toilets, and as the mist cleared awa}*, and the golden orb rose from its bed in the East, the family mustered on deck and saw right ahead a line of blue mountains clearly defined on the Western horizon. Johnnie, Fitz, and Oto mounted the rigging, and ensconced themselves in the fore-top, while the Professor, his wife, and daughter took their places abaft on the poop.