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Footnotes have been placed at the end of the paragraph in which they are referenced.
There are several captioned photographs, which are indicated as [Illustration: Caption]. Hearn also included in his letters small sketches and Japanese script, which cannot be reproduced here. Their approximate positions are indicated with [Illustration]. Any handwritten text in those sketches is included here as captions. No translations of the Japanese were made, since they normally appear in Hearn's text.
Italic text is denoted with underscores as _italic_. The characters 'o', 'a' and 'u' appear with a macron, a straight bar atop the letter. These use the '=' sign as 'T[=o]ky[=o]'. Any text which is printed in small capitals has been rendered as all UPPERCASE, with the exception of 'McDONALD'.
There are two instances of the 'oe' ligature which are given as 'amoeba' and 'OEdipus'.
Some corrections were made where printer's errors were most likely, as described in the Note at the end of the text. Other than those corrections, no changes to spelling have been made. Hyphenation of words at line or page breaks are removed if other instances of the word warrant it.
This book was published in two volumes, of which this is the second. The first volume was released as Project Gutenberg ebook #42312, available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42312.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT 1906 BY ELIZABETH BISLAND WETMORE
LAFCADIO HEARN IN JAPANESE COSTUME (photogravure) _Frontispiece_
THE CITY OF MATSUE, SEEN FROM CASTLE HILL 40
1. The Prefecture Office. The Middle School, in which Mr. Hearn was a teacher, is hidden from view by the Prefecture Office Building.
2. The Normal School. Mr. Hearn also taught here.
3. Here on the beach of Lake Shinyi Mr. Hearn lived for some time.
THE SHINT[=O] TEMPLE OF KIZUKI DESCRIBED IN "GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN" 104
Lafcadio Hearn was the first foreigner who was allowed to enter the inner part of this temple.
A GROUP OF GRADUATES OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL 162
LAFCADIO HEARN'S FAVOURITE DWELLING-HOUSE 192