A Budget of Letters From Japan

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Excerpt from A Budget of Letters From Japan: Reminiscences of Work and Travel in Japan During my leisure hours, while a sojourner in the land of the gods and of the rising sun, [made it a practice - partly as a matter of recreation, and partly from a desire to secure accurate information - to carefully reduce to writing my oh servations and experiences while dwelling in that beautiful country, in order that I might always have something tangi ble wherewith to refresh my memory in coming years when those vivid impressions had become dimmed through lapse of time. In the course of years, these wayside jottings ac cumulated in a manner quite surprising to myself. Throw ing out all matter that had been dwelt upon to any extent by other writers upon Japan, and retaining only that which seemed to me to be fresh material upon this subject, I reduced the substance of my journals to a book, adopting the form of correspondence as being conversational in its nature and best suited for conveying to other minds the results of my own observations and experiences. Submitting the work to several impartial readers, I was strongly urged by them to have it published as containing matter of general interest presented in a readable manner. Bowing to their judgment in the mat ter, I now submit this Budget of Letters to the individual opinion of each reader, hoping that each may derive as much profit and pleasure from the perusal thereof as I have derived from the composing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.