GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN
First Series
by LAFCADIO HEARN


(dedication)

TO THE FRIENDS
WHOSE KINDNESS ALONE RENDERED POSSIBLE
MY SOJOURN IN THE ORIENT,
PAYMASTER MITCHELL McDONALD, U.S.N.
AND
BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, ESQ.
Emeritus Professor of Philology and Japanese in the
Imperial University of Tokyo
I DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES
IN TOKEN OF
AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE



CONTENTS
PREFACE
1 MY FIRST DAY IN THE ORIENT
2 THE WRITING OF KOBODAISHI
3 JIZO
4 A PILGRIMAGE TO ENOSHIMA
5 AT THE MARKET OF THE DEAD
6 BON-ODORI
7 THE CHIEF CITY OF THE PROVINCE OF THE GODS