Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spellingand punctuation remains unchanged.
On page 168, 2nd paragraph of Chapter XIX, refers to a Papal Bullpromulgated by Pope Clement VII in 1860. This has been corrected toPope Clement VIII who was pope when the Bull was promulgated in 1600.
There are a number of footnote references to an Appendix which isnot included in this edition. The first of these are footnotes 1 and 2,which are linked, but subsequent references are marked by an unlinked[1}.
Volume II contains a complete index to both volumes. This has beencopied into this volume.
“JAPAN AS IT WAS AND IS”
A HANDBOOK OF OLD JAPAN
I
Uniform with this Work
A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN.
By Ernest W. Clement. With two
maps and seventy-two illustrations
fromphotographs. Sixth edition.
Price,$1.40 net.
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Chicago
Hildreth’s
“Japan as it Was and Is”
A HANDBOOK OF OLD JAPAN
EDITED, WITH SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES, BY
ERNEST W. CLEMENT
AUTHOR OF “A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN,” ETC.
INTRODUCTION BY
WM. ELLIOT GRIFFIS
With One Hundred Illustrations and Maps
Volume I
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1906
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1906
Published September 29, 1906
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
Volume I.