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HONDA THE SAMURAI. CHAPTER I. THE CITY OF THE HAPPY WELL. "TTTHAT would be the feelings of an " heir of all VV the ages," and especially of an American lad of the nineteenth century, were he to leap out of the present into the thirteenth century? His feel- ings would have been ours, had we arrived in Fukui, in Echizen, Japan, after a journey from Osaka via Lake Biwa and the mountains, in the year of our Lord 1852. Here was the capital city of a feudal province which long ago, and for centuries, had been the center of war, the castle having been often taken and retaken in blood and fire ; but during the last two hundred and seventy years there had been no more quiet spot in the Land of Great Peace. Life in a Japanese city, to one fresh from the intense life and energies of an American metropolis, would have been like existence in the thirteenth century. Society was so simple ; there were but two classes, the governing samurai and the governed 9
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HONDA THE SAMURAI.<br />
CHAPTER I.<br />
THE CITY OF THE HAPPY WELL.<br />
"TTTHAT would be the feelings of an " heir of all<br />
VV the ages," and especially of an American<br />
lad of the nineteenth century, were he to leap out of<br />
the present into the thirteenth century? His feel-<br />
ings would have been ours, had we arrived in Fukui,<br />
in Echizen, Japan, after a journey from Osaka via<br />
Lake Biwa and the mountains, in the year of our<br />
Lord 1852. Here was the capital city of a feudal<br />
province which long ago, and for centuries, had been<br />
the center of war, the castle having been often taken<br />
and retaken in blood and fire ; but during the last<br />
two hundred and seventy years there had been no<br />
more quiet spot in the Land of Great Peace.<br />
Life in a Japanese city, to one fresh from the<br />
intense life and energies of an American metropolis,<br />
would have been like existence in the thirteenth<br />
century. Society was so simple ; there were but two<br />
classes, the governing samurai and the governed<br />
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