CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER XXVI | |
| ART AND LITERATURE | |
| BY BARON SUYEMATSU | |
| I. Art | |
| The Nara Period—Religious Art—The Heian Period—Pairings of Pictures—The Kamakura Period—The Ashikaga Period—The Oda-Toyotomi Period and the Revival of Art—The Tokugawa Period—Hokusai and Korin—The Meiji Era—The Destruction of everything Old—Slow Return to Ancient Excellence—The Effect of the Foreigner—The Characteristics of Japanese Pictures—The Prices of Pictures—The Art of Gardening | 520 |
| II. Literature | |
| Little Literature from Nara Period—Literary Culture greatly Developed in Heian Period—Light Literature principally Written by Women—Genji Monogatari and Makura-no-Soshi—The Question of Morals—The Literary Decadence during the Military Period—The Revival under the Tokugawa Period—The ‘No’—Chinese Influences—Bakin’s Works and School—Popular Drama—A Comparison between Japanese and Western Drama—The Effect of the Popular Drama upon the People—Shakespeare’s Shortcomings—The Present Condition of Literature | 537 |
| CHAPTER XXVII | |
| THE PRESS | |
| BY MR. ZUMOTO | |
| The Public Press as a Gauge of Progress—The Press a Great Power—The Origin of Newspapers in Japan—The Yomiuri Sheets—The Early Newspapers—The Art of Printing—Government Gazettes—The Chugai Shimbun—The Starting of a Newspaper by an Englishman named Black—Tokyo like Paris—Yellow Journalism—News Agencies—The Press as a Step to Political Power—The Future of the Press | 550 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII | |
| POSTS, TELEGRAPHS, AND TELEPHONES | |
| BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE BUREAU OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS | |
| I. The Postal Service | |
| Inauguration—Stamps—Postcards—Uniformity in Postal Charges—The Postal Union—Post Offices and Postal Agencies—Parcel Post—Postal Orders—Postal Savings Banks | 558 |
