AN ACCOUNT OF JAPAN.

London 1853, Ingram. New brown cloth, 105p., very good, with illustration of Port of Nagasaki frontispiece, translated by J.G. Scheuchzer. Q U I T E R A R E This work covers his sojourn in Japan. Beginning with a gen- eralhistory, provinces & government, his opinion of the true origin of the Japanese, Japanese origins, climate, produce, minerals, plant life, beasts, birds, reptiles, insects, fish and shells. The Gods, Emperors, monarch, ecclesiastical life chronology of Japan, religious beliefs, Sinto & it's temples and shrines, Isje, mountain priests, Bushido & foreign pagan worship. Of special interest is the commentary on his trip up the Tokaido to visit the Emperor's court at Yedo, with a description of travel manner by land & sea. Desription what he saw enroutet, post houses, eating-houses, tea-booths,inns & most of all the people he met. Notes on his Court visit, & audience with the Shogun audience. A fascinating primary source by the scholarly physician stationed at Deshima in Nagasaki Bay & employed with the Dutch East India Co. His valuable commentary was the sole source for over 100 years. Kaempfer [1740-1812] was the director of the Deshima factory in 1779-1780 & 1781-1784 in Nagasaki. *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL * M. Takahashi: CATALOGUE OF SPECIAL BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, Tenri 1932, vol.1, p.198, no. 4-8; * H. Cordier: JAPONICA 414-15. * Wellcome III 376. * Veith, I.: HUANG TI NEI CHING SU WEN: THE YELLOW EMPEROR'S CLASSIC OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, illustrates the famous plate on accupuncture found in Kaempfer. * VEITH, Ilza. THE BEGINNINGS OF JAPANESE OBSTETRICS *** .