Japanese customs, as seen by Victorians in 1867
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Some really neat scans of a book written in 1867 regarding Japanese customs, with illustrations. It was written by a Royal Marine serving in Japan.
My favourite passage is the one dealing with rampant spying as a social check mechanism:
Via Boing Boing.
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