Kaimiyô, or posthumous name,130,149.
Kaitakushi saddle-horse,218.
Kajikawa river,120.
Kakemonos, or wall-pictures,46,52.
Kak’ké, a Japanese disease,144,145.
Kamidana, the, or god-shelf,72.
Kaminoyama,134; hot springs,135; the belle of,135;yadoya,136;kura, or godown,136.
Kanaya,50; his house,51,52; floral decorations,52; table equipments,53.
Kanayama,140.
Kasayanagê, farming village,120.
Kashitsukeya, disreputable houses,46.
Kasukabé,39; theyadoya,39; lack of privacy,40; a night alarm,41.
Katakado hamlet,102.
Kawaguchi village,122,181.
Kayashima,93; discomfort,93; a boy cured,94; a diseased crowd,94; habits and food of the natives,94; houses hermetically sealed,95.
Kenrei, or provincial governor,115.
Kimono, the, or gown for both sexes,43et seq.
Kinugawa river,84,89; beauty of scenery on its banks,89.
Kiri Furi, the falls of,54.
Kiriishi hamlet,177.
Kisagoi, a poor place,82.
Kisaki,120.
Kite competition,195.
Kôchô, or chief man of the village,143.
Kohiaku, mountain farm of,81.
Komatsu,131; spacious room and luxurious appointments,131; frogs,132; runaway pack-horse,132.
Komoni-taki volcano,216.
Kotsunagi,177.
Kubota,155; brisk trade,156; suburban residences,156; hospital,157–158; public buildings,158; Normal School,158; silk factory,159; police escort,159; afternoon visitors,165; infant prodigy,166; Japanese wedding,167–169.
Kura, or fire-proof storehouse,53.
Kuroishi,198; festival at,198,199.
Kurokawa,121;matsuriat,122.
Kurosawa, poverty and dulness,123; dirt and barbarism,125.
Kuruma, the, or jin-ri-ki-sha,4,5,35et seq.
Kuruma pass,103.
Kuruma-runners, costume of,34.
Kurumatogé,92; inn on the hill,103; bone extracted,104; hostess,104; the road from, infamous,106; pass,106.
Kusamoto, Mr.,325,326.
Kwan-non, temple of, at Asakusa,21; perpetual fair,23; theNi-ô,24; votive offerings,25; the high altar,25; prayers and pellets,26; Binzuru, the medicine god,26,27;Amainu, or heavenly dogs,27; stone lanterns,28; revolving shrine,28; temple grounds and archery galleries,29; booths,29,30.
Lagoon, curious,172.
Lake of Blood, the,131.
Lamp, Japanese,73.
Land Transport Company, orRiku-un-kaisha,79.
Lanterns, stone,28.
Lebungé,310; its isolation,312; Ainos;312,313.
Lebungétogé passes,308.
Legation, the British, at Yedo,13.
Libraries, circulating,69,70.
Ludicrous incident, a,152.
Mago, the, or leader of a pack-horse,62,84.
Maladies, repulsive, prevalence of,76.
Man-carts, two-wheeled,8,9.
Mari, farming-village,120.
Maro, or loin-cloth,46.
Marriage, a Japanese,166,167; trousseau and furniture,167; ceremony,167,169.
Masonry, Japanese,58.
Matsuhara village, mistake at,129.
Matsuka river,133.
Matsuriat Minato,171; classic dance,171; cars,171.
Medicine god, the, at Asakusa,26,27.
Mihashi, or Sacred Bridge,50.
Mikoshi, or sacred car,24.
Millet-mill and pestle,238.
Minato, the junk port of Kubota,170;matsuriat,170,171; sobriety and order,171.
Mirror, a lady’s,201.
“Missing link,” the,314.
Miyojintaké, snow-fields and ravines,103.
Mogami river,139.
Mombets,286; scenes at,286.
Money,7; current,79.
Mono, farming village,120.
Moore, Captain,322.
Moral lesson, a,36.
Mori village,317,318,220.
Morioka village,173.
Mororan,221; bay,222.
Mororan, Old,297,298.
Mountain scenery,103.
Mud-flat or swamp of Yedo,36.
Mykuruma-runner,305.
Myself in a straw rain-cloak,176.
Nakajo, Japanese doctors at,121.
Nakano, Lower,205; bath-houses,205.
Nakano, Upper,204,205.
Names, female,68,69.
Namioka,207.
Nanai, Yezo,218.
Nantaizan mountains,49.
Needle-work, Japanese,69.
Night-alarm, a,41.
Niigata, landward side disappointing,111; Church Mission House,111,112; itinerary of route from Nikkô to,113; a Treaty Port,114; insect pests,114; without foreign trade,114; its river,114,115; population,115; hospital and schools,115; gardens,116; beautiful tea-houses,116; cleanliness,116; water-ways,116; houses,117,118; climate,119; to Aomori, itinerary of route from,210,211.
Nikkôsan mountains, the,80.
Nikkô, “sunny splendour,”54; its beauties,54; the Red Bridge,55; the Yomei Gate,56; the mythicalKirin,56; thehaidenor chapel,57; the Shôgun’s room,57; the Abbot’s room,57; the great staircase,57; Iyéyasu’s tomb,58; temples of Iyémetsu,58; giganticNi-ô,58; Buddha,59; the Tennô,59; wood-carving,60,61; shops,73,74; houses,75; to Niigata, itinerary of route from,113.
Ni-ô, the, at Asakusa,24.
Nocturnal disturbance, a,179.
Nojiri village,103,104.
Nopkobets river,306.
Nosoki, Dr.,141; lotion and febrifuge,141; old-fashioned practitioner,142; at dinner,142.
Nosoki village,143.
Nozawa town,103.
Numa hamlet,123; crowded dwellings,124.
Obanasawa,139.
Odaté,181;yadoyas, nocturnal disturbances at,181,182.
Okawa stream,90.
Okimi,124.
Omagori, manufacture of earthenware jars for interment,149,150.
Omono river,143,148,155,156.
Ori pass,124.
Oshamambé,315.
Osharu river,301.
Ouchi hamlet,96.
Oyakê lake,97.
Pack-cows,124,128.
Pack-horse, the Japanese,62,63; a vicious,102.
Pack-saddle, description of,62,63.
Packet-boat, “running the rapids” of Tsugawa,109,110.
Palm, Dr., his tandem,121.
Paper-money,7.
Parental love,75.
Parkes, Sir Harry and Lady,8.
Parting, a regretful,50.
Passport, travelling,33; regulations of,33,34.
Peasant costume,43.
Pellets and prayers,26.
Picture and guidebooks, Japanese,71.
Pipicharo, the Aino,249,250,252,287; a “total abstainer,”249.
Poison and arrow-traps,269.
Priests, Buddhist, fees to,151.
Prospect, a painful,19.