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Kettles. 2. Tsi-kungo (ten districts) ; cities, Kurome, Yana-gawa ; productions,
carp, safflower, radishes. 3. Buzen (eight districts) ; cities, Kokura.
Nakatsu ; productions, cotton fabrics, rock-crystal, sulphur. 4. Bungo (eight
districts); cities, Osuki, Takeda, Saeki, Foonae or Fnae, Finode ; produo
tions, saltpetre, sulphur, rock-crystal, tin, lead, large bamboos, chestnuts,
hawks and dogs for hunting, fish, frying-pans, bricks. 5. Fizen (eleven
districts); cities, Saga, Karatsu, Omura, Simabara, Osima, Firando, Naga-
saki ; productions, whales and other sea-fish, shell-fish, echini, edible roots,
water-melons, raisins, earthen ware, silk stuffs, knives, brass guns, porcelain,
mats, cotton cloths, sugar. 6. Figo (fourteen districts); cities, Kuma-moto,
Yatsu-siro, Oodo, Amakusa ; productions, salted fish, sweet oranges, tree
cotton, mosses, grindstones, flints, earthen ware, tobacco pipes, leather
trunks. 7. Fiuga (five districts); cities, Jyifi, Takanabeh, Nobi-6ka, Sadowara
; productions, lacker, pears, deal for building. 8. Osumi (eight dis-
tricts); capital, Kokobu ; productions, brass cannon. 9. Satsuma (fourteen
districts); capital, Kagosima ; productions, camphor, a species of
ginseng, safflower, melons, edible roots, tobacco, vegetable wax, cinnamon,
trained horses, deer-skins, cloths, combs, saki.
The island of Iki is divided into two districts; its capital is Katu-moto ;-ita
productions are fish, cloths and gauzes.
The island of Tsu-sima, between Corea and Japan, is also divided into two
districts ; the capital is Futsiu ; its productions are ginseng, lead, grind-
stones and frying-pans.
The empire is governed by eight administrations or boards ; namely, Tsiu
jo-no-sio, the general central board ; Sik-boo-no-sio , the board of legislation
and of public instruction ; Dzi-boo-no-sio, the general board for the
interior ;
Min-boo-no-sib, the board for the affairs of the people, or general
police ; Fio-boo-no-sio, the general board of war ; Ghio-boo-no-sio, the
board of criminal affairs ; Oo-koora-sio, the treasury board ; Koo-ndi-no
sio, the ministry of the imperial dwelling.
NOTE I.
OMITTED DOCUMENTS.
I. Letter of the Emperor Ge-Jas (Ogosho-Sama) to the king of England
(James I.).*
"Your majesty's kind letter, sent me by your servant, Captain John.
Saris (who is the first that I have known to arrive in any part of my
dominions), I heartily embrace, being not a little glad to understand of your
great wisdom and power, as having three plentiful and mighty kingdoma
under your powerful command. I acknowledge your majesty's great bounty
* See ante, page 171.