The Mikado's Empire

IBRARYTHE UNIVERSITYOF CAL [FORNIALOS ANGELESINMEMORY OFCARROLL ALCOTTPRESENTED BYCARROLL ALCOTTMEMORIALLIBRARY FUNDCOMMITTEEDeliverance of the Saint Nichireu from the Executioner ofIloly 165.Hojo. [PageTHEMIKADO'S EMPIRE.BOOK I.OFHISTORY JAPAN,From 660 B.C. to 1872 A.D.II.BOOKPERSONAL EXPERIENCES, OBSERVATIONS,INAND STUDIES JAPAN,1870-1874.By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, A.M.,LATE OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN.TOKJO,NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,FRANKLIN SQUARE.1876.to Act of in theEntered according Congress, year 1876, byHARPER & BROTHERS,of the Librarian of atIn the Office Congress, Washington.TOJAPANESE LOVERS OP KNOWLEDGE IN EVERY AGE :THE DEAD,WHO FIRST KINDLED THE SACRED WHO PASSED ON THEFIRE, TORCH;THE MARTYRS,WHO SUFFERED DEATH FOR THEIR DEVOTION TO NATIONALLOYALTY, PATRIOTISM,AND REGENERATION;UNITY, RESTORATION,THE STUDENTS,IN NOBLE THIRST FOR FOUND HONORED GRAVES IN ALIEN SOIL;WHO, TRUTH,THE LIVING,WITH WHOM RESTS THE FUTURE OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL LAND,THIS SKETCHMADE IN THE OF ANDOF THEIR COUNTRY AND INTERESTPEOPLE, TRUTH,SET DOWN WITHOUT EXTENUATION OR MALICE, IS,WITH FRATERNAL REGARD,DEDICATEDANDBY THEIR COMRADE FRIEND,THE AUTHOR.PREFACE.once in the far-off is now our nearest WesternOrient,JAPAN, neigh-bor. Her walk our streets her and rivals of; youth sit, peerspeopleher art adorns our and hasour in the class-roomstudents, ; homes,to us a new Gate Beautiful. The wise men from the Westopenedat ...