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Japanese customs, as seen by Victorians in 1867

By Ed Rodriguez on December 7, 2007 8:09 PM |

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:

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs