Excerpt from The Lands of the Rising Sun: A Talk With English Boys and Girls About China, Corea and Japan On the cover of this little book, do not be disappointed if you find nothing about flowers inside. We are going to a strange land across the sea where people use high-sounding words to mean very ordinary and even ugly things. They call their country the Flowery Land because the name sounds nice and not because it is full of flowers, and presently you will find that Golden Lilies mean something very different from the fragrant. Smell and dainty shape and tint of the lily in our gardens. In plain English I am going to tell you something of china. 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.