The Heart of Japan: Glimpses of Life and Nature Far from the Travellers' Track in the Land of the Rising SunMethuen, 1904 - 302 páginas |
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... Okashi Kintaro , who subsequently became our landlord . He was down from the north on a visit to some friends with whom he had served in his fighting days . We saw him several times , and so enjoyed the enthusiasm he displayed at ...
... Okashi Kintaro , who subsequently became our landlord . He was down from the north on a visit to some friends with whom he had served in his fighting days . We saw him several times , and so enjoyed the enthusiasm he displayed at ...
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... Okashi's , where we had supped and spent the night . While serving us our host had noticed that we liked a certain walnut sweet particularly , and so the good wife had sat up all the night making more of it for our break- fast . I had ...
... Okashi's , where we had supped and spent the night . While serving us our host had noticed that we liked a certain walnut sweet particularly , and so the good wife had sat up all the night making more of it for our break- fast . I had ...
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... Okashi San's own home . I do not remember anything about it . We were in the capital of Etchiu , on the west coast of Dai Nippon , looking out over the North Sea , as they call it there , toward the frozen Siberian coast . Here Okashi ...
... Okashi San's own home . I do not remember anything about it . We were in the capital of Etchiu , on the west coast of Dai Nippon , looking out over the North Sea , as they call it there , toward the frozen Siberian coast . Here Okashi ...
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... Okashi was a samurai of the old school , brought up under the feudal system . He knew how to fight , of course , as all gentlemen should in those days . If he knew anything else he concealed it during the year we lived with him . I do ...
... Okashi was a samurai of the old school , brought up under the feudal system . He knew how to fight , of course , as all gentlemen should in those days . If he knew anything else he concealed it during the year we lived with him . I do ...
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... Okashi San then seemed just the man , and we thought ourselves in great luck to secure him . So it was that when we asked him to be our landlord , he hailed the idea with delight . He said he liked foreigners , and confided in a friend ...
... Okashi San then seemed just the man , and we thought ourselves in great luck to secure him . So it was that when we asked him to be our landlord , he hailed the idea with delight . He said he liked foreigners , and confided in a friend ...
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