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6 PREFACE. become the pastor of Shawmut Church, that one of my fellow-members asked for this story, but lack of time and press of many duties prevented my fulfillment of the promise then given until this year. I can scarcely say that " Honda the Samurai " is a story " founded on fact," but rather that the whole edifice of fiction is a mass of facts cemented together with a little imagination and fancy. In the first part of the book I have pictured in short stories ancient and mediaeval Japan. I next show the change of the Japanese mind in the rush of events that followed the arrival of Perry's invincible but peaceful armada, and then the nation's growth from 1868 to 1890. The story is a string of pictures of what I saw, or heard, or knew to exist, in " the country between heaven and earth." Portions of the descriptive matter in the book have already appeared in the author's contribu- tions to periodical literature, but so rewritten as to be hardly recognizable even to former readers, while the narrative is wholly new. May the story bind in new sympathy and friendship Japanese and Americans; and in new love and consecra- tion to the Master all his followers, on both sides of the Pacific ! SHAWMUT CHUBCH, BOSTON, October 1, 1890. W. E. G.
CONTENTS. I. THE CITY OF THE HAPPY WELL 9 II. A JAPANESE HOME 22 III. THE BEGINNING OF ART 33 IV. THE DREAM-WORLD 43 V. Two BABY BOYS 57 VI. A BOY BABY'S LIFE 70 VII. MR. RAI TALKS POLITICS WITH HIS SON ... 83 VIII. How JAPAN'S DOUBLE GOVERNMENT BEGAN . 100 IX. THE WAR OF THE RED AND WHITE BANNERS . 116 X. FUN, FACT, AND FANCY ABOUT YOSHITSUNE . 130 XI. MEN, MONKEYS, HORSES, AND BOYS .... 145 XII. SCENES AT A HERO'S SHRINE 160 XIII. EXCITING NEWS. "THE AMERICANS HAVE COME" 176 XIV. THE LIFE OF A RONIN 187 XV. FROM KAMAKURA TO YEDO 198 XVI. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG GOLD-FISH .... 209 XVII. AN OBJECT LESSON IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION 222 XVIII. ARRESTED AND IN PRISON 234 7
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PREFACE.<br />
become the pastor of Shawmut Church, that one of my<br />
fellow-members asked for this story, but lack of time and<br />
press of many duties prevented my fulfillment of the<br />
promise then given until this year.<br />
I can scarcely say that " Honda the Samurai " is a story<br />
" founded on fact," but rather that the whole edifice of<br />
fiction is a mass of facts cemented together with a little<br />
imagination and fancy. In the first part of the book I have<br />
pictured in short stories ancient and mediaeval Japan. I<br />
next show the change of the Japanese mind in the rush<br />
of events that followed the arrival of Perry's invincible<br />
but peaceful armada, and then the nation's growth from<br />
1868 to 1890. The story is a string of pictures of what I<br />
saw, or heard, or knew to exist, in " the country between<br />
heaven and earth." Portions of the descriptive matter in<br />
the book have already appeared<br />
in the author's contribu-<br />
tions to periodical literature, but so rewritten as to be<br />
hardly recognizable even to former readers, while the<br />
narrative is wholly new.<br />
May the story bind in new sympathy and friendship<br />
Japanese and Americans; and in new love and consecra-<br />
tion to the Master all his followers, on both sides of the<br />
Pacific !<br />
SHAWMUT CHUBCH, BOSTON,<br />
October 1, 1890.<br />
W. E. G.