THE FOUNDATIONS OF JAPAN
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NOTES MADE DURING JOURNEYS OF
6,000 MILES IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS AS
A BASIS FOR A SOUNDER KNOWLEDGE
OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE
BY J.W. ROBERTSON SCOTT
("HOME COUNTIES")
WITH 85 ILLUSTRATIONS
"In good sooth, my masters, this is no door, yet it is a little window"
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1922
TO
SCOTT SAN NO OKUSAN
FOR WHOLESOME CRITICISM
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A concern arose to spend some time with them that I might feel and understand their life and the spirit they live in, if haply I might receive some instruction from them, or they might be in any degree helped forward by my following the leadings of truth among them when the troubles of War were increasing and when travelling was more difficult than usual. I looked upon it as a more favourable opportunity to season my mind and to bring me into a nearer sympathy with them.—Journal of John Woolman, 1762.
I determined to commence my researches at some distance from the capital, being well aware of the erroneous ideas I must form should I judge from what I heard in a city so much subjected to foreign intercourse.—Borrow.