Excerpt from Japan IN the preparation of the following Work the Author has to acknowledge the assistance which he has received from a Japanese gentleman in Yokohama, whose name, for Obvious reasons, it is prudent not to mention. With his knowledge of the history and institutions of his country, the Author was able to fill up the blanks in Short notices of history contained in elemen tary Japanese books. He was further enabled to go over the red-books of the empire, which enter into the details of the pedigrees Of illustrious families, and into the minutiae of Government Offices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.