Excerpt from Japan 1853-1864, or Genji Yume Monogatari (in the autumn of the year 1864, during the reign of the Izznd sovereign of the human dynasty, a disturbance took place at Ki???to the like of which had not occurred since the first origin of Japan. Arms were resorted to, and bullets flew about the imperial palace; nay more than half of it was burnt in a eonflagration which arose out of the fight. The fierce flames lighted up the heavens, and huge waves overwhelmed the earth. The people fell, as it ...
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Excerpt from Japan 1853-1864, or Genji Yume Monogatari (in the autumn of the year 1864, during the reign of the Izznd sovereign of the human dynasty, a disturbance took place at Ki???to the like of which had not occurred since the first origin of Japan. Arms were resorted to, and bullets flew about the imperial palace; nay more than half of it was burnt in a eonflagration which arose out of the fight. The fierce flames lighted up the heavens, and huge waves overwhelmed the earth. The people fell, as it were, into a burning pit and the whole country was convulsed from end to end. The origin of this outbreak was not the affair of one day. Twelve years previously on the 3rd day of the 6th month in the summer of 1853 an individual named perry, who called him self the envoy of the United States of America, suddenly arrived at Uraga in the province of Sagami with four ships of war, declaring that he brought a letter from his country to Japan, and that he wished to deliver it to the Sovereign. The bugio' toda idzu NO kami, much alarm cd by this extraordinary event, hastened to the spot to inform himself ofits meaning. The envoy stated in reply to questions that he desired to see a, ehiei xfixs'eet oi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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