Mysterious Japan

xii, 348 pp. CONTENTS: Part I: Discussing Curious Traits of the Pacific Ocean; The Road to Tokyo; The Capital and Costumes; Earthquakes and Burglars; Inversions and the Oriental Mind; The Isles of Complexities; Part II: The Gentlest of the Gentler Sex; More About Women; The National Sport; On Sake and Its Effects; Diet and Dancing; Geisha Parties; The Nightless City; In a Garden; An Explosive Philosopher; Part III: Grand Old Men; Recollections of Viscount Shibusawa; Viscount Kaneko's Memories of Roosevelt; Are the Japanese Efficient?; Japanese-American Relations; Courtesy and Diplomacy; Part IV: A Rural Railroad; Adventures in a Bath at Kamogawa; A Night at an Inn; Pretty Gen Tajima; Superstitions and Yuki's Eyes; "Japanned English" and Art; Sayonara.