Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam

1690-92

BY

ENGELBERT KAEMPFER, M.D. Physician to the Dutch Embassy to the Emperor's Court and translated by

J. G. SCHEUCHZER, F.R.S.

VOLUME I

Glasgow

James MacLehose and Sons

Publishers to the University

New York: The Macmillan Company

952 Kus

THE CONTENTS OF THE
FIRST VOLUME

Publishers' Note,

Biographical Note on the Scheuchzer Family by

Sir Archibald Geikie, -

The Dedication,

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xiii

XV

xxi

The Names of the Subscribers to the Original

Edition,

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The Author's Preface,

The Life of the Author, by the Translator,

An Introduction by the Translator,

The History of Japan

BOOK I

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN

CHAP.

I. Journal of the author's voyage from Batavia to Siam, with

an account of what happen'd during his Stay there,

II. The present State of the Court of Siam, with a description

of Juthia, the Capital City and Place of the King's

CHAP.

III. The Author's departure from Juthia, down the River

Meinam to the harbour, and from thence to Japan,

IV. Of the Empire of Japan in general, as to its situation

and the largeness of its several Islands,

V. The Division and Sub-division of the Empire of Japan

into its several Provinces; as also of its Revenue

and Government,

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73

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114

VI. The Author's opinion of the true Origin and Descent

of the Japanese,

131

VII. Of the Origin of the Japanese, according to their own

fabulous Opinion,

152

VIII. Of the Climate of Japan, and its Produce as to Minerals

and Metals,

160

IX. Of the Fertility of the Country as to Plants,

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176

X. Of the plenty of the Country as to Beasts, Birds, Reptiles

OF THE POLITICAL STATE OF JAPAN

I. Names of the Gods, Demi-Gods and Emperors, who are

mention'd in the Japanese Histories, as the first

Monarchs and Governors of that Empire,

II. Of the Ecclesiastical Hereditary Emperors of Japan in

general, of their Succession, Residence and Court;

as also of the Chronology of the Japanese, -

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213

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259

III. Of the Ecclesiastical Hereditary Emperors in particular,

and first of those, who govern'd from the beginning of

the Japanese Monarchy, till our Saviour's Nativity,

273