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More queer things about Japan (1904)

Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947, Lorimer, Norma Octavia, d. 1864, Adams, William, 1564-1620 · London : A. Treherne & co., ltd. · leaf 520

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Yedo— To hack on p. 369. … now called Tokyo. TOPSY-TURVY TOKYO Japanese. It was built out of a swamp in thedelta of an unnavigable river, at the head of anunnavigable bay, on ground visited pretty regularlyby earthquakes and typhoons. The inhabitant ofTokyo has to make his choice between having hishouse blown away by the…

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