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Title: Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15)
The Romance of Reality

Author: Charles Morris

Release Date: March 9, 2010 [EBook #31571]

Language: English

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Historical Tales

The Romance of Reality

By

CHARLES MORRIS

_Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from
the Dramatists," etc._

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

Volume XII

Japanese and Chinese

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON

Copyright, 1898, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

Copyright, 1904, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

Copyright, 1908, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

[Illustration: GREAT GATE NIKKO.]

_CONTENTS._

PAGE

THE FIRST OF THE MIKADOS 5

HOW CIVILIZATION CAME TO JAPAN 12

YAMATO-DAKE, A HERO OF ROMANCE 19

JINGU, THE AMAZON OF JAPAN 27

THE DECLINE OF THE MIKADOS 35

HOW THE TAIRA AND THE MINAMOTO FOUGHT FOR POWER 41

THE BAYARD OF JAPAN 51

THE HOJO TYRANNY 59

THE TARTAR INVASION OF JAPAN 67

NOBUNAGA AND THE FALL OF THE BUDDHISTS 73