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Title: Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs

Author: J. M. W. Silver

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SKETCHES OF JAPANESE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS

by

J. M. W. SILVER
Lieutenant Royal Marines, Light Infantry
(Late of the Royal Marine Battalion for Service in Japan)

Illustrated by Native Drawings,
Reproduced in Fac-Simile by Means of Chromo-Lithography.

LONDON

1867

[Illustration: Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs]

TO

COLONEL SIR EDMUND SAUNDERSON PRIDEAUX, BART.

DEAR SIR EDMUND,

These few 'Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs' were collected
during the years 1864-5, at which time I was attached to the Battalion
of Royal Marines for service in Japan, and it is now very pleasing to
have the privilege of dedicating them to one who was the friend and
companion-in-arms of my late Father.

In memory of this bond of friendship, and in grateful acknowledgment
of the many kindnesses you have shown me, this Dedication of my humble
efforts to assist in the elucidation of the social condition of a
distant and comparatively unknown race, affords me deep gratification.

With much respect and esteem, I am,
Dear Sir Edmund,
Very faithfully yours,
J. M. W. SILVER.

Royal Marine Barracks, Forton,
January 29th, 1867.

CONTENTS.

I. FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS

II. FIRES AND FIRE-BRIGADES

III. DOMESTIC LIFE

IV. THE TYCOON, DAIMIOS, AND ARISTOCRACY

V. THE COURT OF THE MIKADO

VI