Excerpt from Sakurambo In travelling through the highways and byways of a country there are many questions which present themselves, and which we try to answer on the facts familiar to us of our own present and past, require a resume of the authorities to which recourse was had so numerously sprinkled over the land of Japan, naturally these questions come up, to'which, with this secretive Oriental people, it is difficult to find an answer. The material of this book is largely made of personal impressions gained. By four years of travel through its countryside. For the opinions here expressed, only the writer is responsible. The facts, dealing in some cases with the past, require a resume of the authorities to which recourse was had to obtain such facts. 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.