PREFACE
Contents
Illustrations
I JAPAN ASLEEP
II THE OLD YASHIKI
III THE MESSENGER
IV THE FIFTH DAY OF THE ELEVENTH MONTH
V THE COUNCIL OF THE CLAN
VI YOUNG KANO GROWS UP
VII KANO'S JOURNEY TO YEDO
VIII YOKOHAMA IN 1859
IX NEW EXPERIENCE
X FRIENDSHIP OR HATRED?
XI CHOSHIU'S YASHIKI
XII SONNO-JOI
XIII PLOTTING
XIV WITHIN THE PALACE
XV UNDERGROUND RUMBLING
XVI THE COURT AROUSED
XVII A CONFERENCE
XVIII FLIGHT
XIX BATTLE AND DEFEAT
XX DRILLING
XXI DOWN WITH TOKUGAWA!
XXII CONCLUSION
NOTES
FOOTNOTES:
A BOY OF OLD JAPAN.
BY R. VAN BERGEN
Author of The Story of Japan, The Story of China, Heroic Japan, etc., etc.
Illustrated with original Japanese Color Pictures
BOSTON LEE and SHEPARD M C M I
Copyright 1901, by LEE & SHEPARD All rights reserved A Boy of Old Japan Norwood Press Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
TO MY LITTLE SON HENRY A. S. VAN BERGEN, IN RECOLLECTION OF OUR PLEASANT VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE
