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Manners, Customs, Life and History of the People of China, Japan and Corea (Paperback)
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Manners, Customs, Life and History of the People of China, Japan and Corea (Paperback)
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Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1897 Excerpt: ...by the Dutch named Pappenberg, in the harbor of
Nagasaki. The result of this series of events was that the
favorable policy adopted by Iyeyasu in regard to foreign trade was
completely reversed. No foreigners were allowed to set foot on the
soil of Japan, except Chinese and a few Dutch merchants. The Dutch
gained the privilege of residing in confinement on the little
island of Deshima, a piece of made land in the harbor of Nagasaki.
Here under degrading restrictions and constant surveillance lived
less than a score of Hollanders, who were required every year to
send a representative to Yeddo to do homage to the shogun. They
were allowed one ship per annum to come from the Dutch East Indies
for the exchange of the commodities of Japan for those of Holland.
Says Doctor Griffis in his study of this era of Japanese history,
"After nearly a hundred years of Christianity and foreign
intercourse, the only apparent results of this contact with another
religion and civilization were the adoption of gunpowder and
fire-arms as weapons, the use of tobacco and the habit of smoking,
the making of sponge cake, the naturalization into the language of
a few foreign words, the introduction of new and strange forms of
disease, among which the Japanese count the scourge of the venereal
virus, and the permanent addition to 232 A CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY
AND ITS EFFECTS. that catalogue of terrors which priest and
magistrate in Asiatic countries ever hold as welcome, to overawe
the herd. For centuries the mention of that name would bate the
breath, blanch the cheek and smite with fear as with an earthquake
shock. It was the synomyn of sorcery, sedition, and all that was
hostile to the purity of the home and the peace of society. All
over the empire, in every city, town, villa...
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