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The Loochoo Islands
Table of ContentsPreface Preliminary I General Description 7 History 13 Foreigners and the Loochoos 30 The People 33 Temples and Public Buildings 39 The Snakes 44 The Products and Commerce of the Islands 46 Government Institutions 56 Japanese Colonization in the Loochoos 59 Appendix I. Memorandum prepared by the Chief Official of the Yaeyama Group 62 Appendix II. Abstract of a Manuscript History of the Loochoos 76 Appendix III. Extracts from Chinese Ming Dynasty History 98 Appendix IV Extracts from the Chinese "Present Dynasty's Survey of Historical Facts" 118 Appendix V. Extract from "Letters and Dispatches of Li Hung-chang" 159 Bibliography 92 Hieroglyphics 96 Map Facing page 186Title Page Frontispiece - "His Excellency Baron Narahara Governor of Loochoo Islands" "Photo. T. Hasegawa Tokyo" Text Illustrations.Samisen Players (page 2) A Loochooan Actor (page 3) Banyan Tree at Naha (page 12) View of Part of Naha (page 17) Loochooan Junk, Near Naha (page 17) Cemetery with Graves of Perry's Expedition (page 24) Chief Port of Miyako Island (page 25) Loochooan Native, Near Naha (page 30) Monument Erected by Order of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Miyako Island (page 32) Killing Pigs at Naha (page 34) Market at Naha (page 34) [Tattooed Hands, red color, 2 images] The Palace of the Former Kings, Shuri (page 39) A House on Yonakuni Island (page 40) The Snake Laboratory (page 44) Loochooan Girl Weaving Kasuri (page 46) Shinto and Buddhist Temples at Naha (page 47) Nago, in the Interior of Okinawa, 13 ri From Naha (page 51) One of the Gates of Shuri (page 52) Graves of Persons of Higher Class (page 53) Graves of Common People in Naha (page 53) Port of Naze, Oshima Island (page 55) Road from Naha to Shuri (page 57) Lighthouse at Naha (page 60) Copy of a Tablet (page 95) Copy of a Tablet (page 96-7) Map (facing last page) 3 folds out; 16 1/2 x 9 1/2 in - 42.8 x 24.7 cm
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