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Title: Japan
A Record in Colour

Author: Dorothy Menpes

Illustrator: Mortimer Menpes

Release Date: April 22, 2010 [EBook #32086]

Language: English

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JAPAN

OTHER BEAUTIFUL BOOKS ON JAPAN

EACH CONTAINING FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

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ANCIENT TALES AND FOLK-LORE OF JAPAN

BY R. GORDON SMITH, F.R.G.S.

57 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAPANESE ARTISTS

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THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN

DESCRIBED BY FLORENCE DU CANE

50 ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELLA DU CANE

* * * * *

"JAPAN"

In the "Peeps at Many Lands and Cities" Series

BY JOHN FINNEMORE

12 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

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PEEPS AT THE HISTORY OF JAPAN

BY JOHN FINNEMORE

8 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND
NUMEROUS LINE DRAWINGS IN THE TEXT

PUBLISHED BY
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, 4, 5 AND 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.

[Illustration: MISS POMEGRANATE]

JAPAN . A RECORD IN
COLOUR BY MORTIMER
MENPES . TRANSCRIBED
BY DOROTHY MENPES .
PUBLISHED BY ADAM &
CHARLES BLACK . SOHO
SQUARE . LONDON . W.

_Published December 1901
Reprinted May 1902, January 1903, January 1904
January 1905_

TO MY FRIEND

THE LADY EDWARD CECIL

TO WHOSE ENTHUSIASTIC SYMPATHY
MY WORK IN JAPAN
OWES SO MUCH OF THE SUCCESS
IT HAS ATTAINED

Note

In this book I endeavour to present, with whatever skill of penmanship I
may possess, my father's impressions of Japan. I trust that they will
not lose in force and vigour in that they are closely intermingled with
my own impressions, which were none the less vivid because they were
those of a child,--for it was as a child, keenly interested in and
enjoying all I saw, that I passed, four or five years ago, t