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Book Synopsis

Published by EPM in Japan and distributed by Routledge outside of Japan

  • A facsimile reprint of the 1826-27 edition of The Every-Day Book, the successful year book by William Hone, a renowned nineteenth-century British publisher/bookseller, as well as a writer and satirist.
  • With many illustrations the publication shows us vividly English life in each season throughout the year.
  • A useful reference tool for any institutions with courses of English and Nineteenth-Century Studies.


Table of Contents

cONTENTS (Sample articles from the 1890 issues)

A Dictionary of Japanese Law Terms

A Much-married Man

Affairs in Korea

Amalgamation of Political Parties

Asiatic Society of Japan

Changes in Local Government

Count Itagaki’s Political Influence

Cruelty to Animals in Japan

Education in 1889

Inauguration of the Leper Hospital at Koyama

Japan Becoming Famous

Japan in Their Dealings with Foreigners

Japanese Emigration to Hawaii

Japanese Foreign Trade in 1889

Kano Hogai

M. Boissonade’s Reply to the Objectors

Maruyama Okyo

Messrs. Shibusawa and Iwasaki

Missions in Japan

Mr. Lowder and Treaty Revision

Mr. Osaki Yukio and the New Cabinet

Mr. Sonoda Kokichi on British Trade

New Edition of "The Light of Asia"

Nippon Onagaku Kwai

Postal Saving Banks in Japan

Professor E. Fenollossa

Professor Toyama on Current Educational Methods

Proposed Honours to the Pioneers of Western Learning

Pugilistic Females

Railways in Japan

Red Cross Society of Japan

Religious Government in Japan

Reminiscences of a Japanese Art Studio of Former Days

Rice

Silk in 1889

Sir Edwin Arnold and the Satsuma Rebellion

Subsidy to Tea Exporters

The "Aikoku-koto" Party 

The "Kirin" Beer at the Industrial Exhibition

The "Kokumin-no-Tomo"

The 11th National Bank and the Mitsubishi

The Bank of Japan and the Present Financial Depression

The Bible of the Church

The Complete Bible in Japanese

The Famine Relief Funds

The Influenza Epidemic

The Japanese in California

The Japanese in Korea

The Koto Chiu Gakko Affair

The Meiji Art Association

The Nationalistic Movement in Japan

The New Journalism

The Other Side of the Treaty Negotiations with Japan

The Photograph Family

The Photographic Society of Japan

The Progress of Science during the Past Twenty Years

The Question of Prostitution

The Riukiu Islands

The Seismological Society of Japan

The Stock Market

The Tendency of Japanese Christianity

The Third National Exhibition

The Yokosuka Outrage

The Yotsuya Ghost

Watanabe Kazan

Yokohama Literary Society etc.

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      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9784905211044, 978-4905211044
      ISBN10: 4905211042

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Published by EPM in Japan and distributed by Routledge outside of Japan

      • A facsimile reprint of the 1826-27 edition of The Every-Day Book, the successful year book by William Hone, a renowned nineteenth-century British publisher/bookseller, as well as a writer and satirist.
      • With many illustrations the publication shows us vividly English life in each season throughout the year.
      • A useful reference tool for any institutions with courses of English and Nineteenth-Century Studies.


      Table of Contents

      cONTENTS (Sample articles from the 1890 issues)

      A Dictionary of Japanese Law Terms

      A Much-married Man

      Affairs in Korea

      Amalgamation of Political Parties

      Asiatic Society of Japan

      Changes in Local Government

      Count Itagaki’s Political Influence

      Cruelty to Animals in Japan

      Education in 1889

      Inauguration of the Leper Hospital at Koyama

      Japan Becoming Famous

      Japan in Their Dealings with Foreigners

      Japanese Emigration to Hawaii

      Japanese Foreign Trade in 1889

      Kano Hogai

      M. Boissonade’s Reply to the Objectors

      Maruyama Okyo

      Messrs. Shibusawa and Iwasaki

      Missions in Japan

      Mr. Lowder and Treaty Revision

      Mr. Osaki Yukio and the New Cabinet

      Mr. Sonoda Kokichi on British Trade

      New Edition of "The Light of Asia"

      Nippon Onagaku Kwai

      Postal Saving Banks in Japan

      Professor E. Fenollossa

      Professor Toyama on Current Educational Methods

      Proposed Honours to the Pioneers of Western Learning

      Pugilistic Females

      Railways in Japan

      Red Cross Society of Japan

      Religious Government in Japan

      Reminiscences of a Japanese Art Studio of Former Days

      Rice

      Silk in 1889

      Sir Edwin Arnold and the Satsuma Rebellion

      Subsidy to Tea Exporters

      The "Aikoku-koto" Party 

      The "Kirin" Beer at the Industrial Exhibition

      The "Kokumin-no-Tomo"

      The 11th National Bank and the Mitsubishi

      The Bank of Japan and the Present Financial Depression

      The Bible of the Church

      The Complete Bible in Japanese

      The Famine Relief Funds

      The Influenza Epidemic

      The Japanese in California

      The Japanese in Korea

      The Koto Chiu Gakko Affair

      The Meiji Art Association

      The Nationalistic Movement in Japan

      The New Journalism

      The Other Side of the Treaty Negotiations with Japan

      The Photograph Family

      The Photographic Society of Japan

      The Progress of Science during the Past Twenty Years

      The Question of Prostitution

      The Riukiu Islands

      The Seismological Society of Japan

      The Stock Market

      The Tendency of Japanese Christianity

      The Third National Exhibition

      The Yokosuka Outrage

      The Yotsuya Ghost

      Watanabe Kazan

      Yokohama Literary Society etc.

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