Japan, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Japan, Vol. 3: Described Illustrated by the Japanese Of the badger-blaze it is related that it wanders in the Kawabe district of Settsu on rainy nights, and that uninitiated rustics, mistaking it for the glowing pipe of an ox-driver, hold con verse with the badger, who is at all times a sociable fellow, and have even lit their own tobacco at his and pufi'ed it in his company. The numerous legends that Japanese fancy has woven around the will-o'-the-wi sp have an interest of their own as illustrating the genius of the people, but our limits of space forbid fuller reference to the subject. 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.