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1 III | my fellow-passengers were Ôsaka geisha going to the festival.
2 V(1) | illustrating the feuilletons of the Ôsaka Asahi Shimbun) these indications
3 VII | VII~IN ÔSAKA~ Takaki ya ni~Noborité
4 VII | concerning the great city of Ôsaka (as the name is now transliterated): - "
5 VII | Captain Saris said of the Ôsaka of the seventeenth century
6 VII | almost equally true of the Ôsaka of to-day. It is still a
7 VII | the magnificent palace.~ Ôsaka is more than two thousand
8 VII | the existence of Japan, Ôsaka was the great financial
9 VII | feudal era, the merchants of Ôsaka were the bankers and creditors
10 VII | sinews of war. Hideyoshi made Ôsaka his military capital; -
11 VII | financial power.~ The Ôsaka of 1896, covering a vast
12 VII | of foreign trade, because Ôsaka is able to attract to herself
13 VII | import and export trade of Ôsaka represents about $120,000,
14 VII | everybody wants is made in Ôsaka; and there are few comfortable
15 VII | the furnishing of which Ôsaka industry has not contributed
16 VII | burden runs, - "Every day to Ôsaka come a thousand ships."
17 VII | harbor, and receive their Ôsaka freight at Kobé. But the
18 VII | 16,000,000. An~{p. 136}~Ôsaka with a population of two
19 VII | I need scarcely say that Ôsaka is the centre of the great
20 VII | and in Japan the man of Ôsaka is said to be recognizable
21 VII | than that of the man of Ôsaka, - as in America the man
22 VII(1)| commercial companies in Ôsaka.
23 VII | intercompetition. At all events, the Ôsaka merchant or manufacturer
24 VII | acknowledged superiority of Ôsaka commercial travelers; a
25 VII | Such is one type of the Ôsaka commercial traveler of 1896, -
26 VII | From the reputation of Ôsaka as a centre of production
27 VII | all Japanese cities. But Ôsaka is the reverse. Fewer Western
28 VII | costumes are to be seen in Ôsaka than in any other large
29 VII | those of the great mart.~ Ôsaka is supposed to set many
30 VII | not less than fashionably, Ôsaka remains almost as Japanese
31 VII | Japan has so many bridges as Ôsaka: wards are named after them,
32 VII | the Koreans, as a centre. Ôsaka people find their way to
33 VII | the names of the bridges. Ôsaka is the best-ordered city,
34 VII | The central part of Ôsaka contains many very large
35 VII | city shows less favor than Ôsaka to Occidental architecture.
36 VII | of economical experience. Ôsaka will build in Western style -
37 VII(1)| The foreign legations left Ôsaka to take shelter at Kobé
38 VII(1)| protected by their men-of-war in Ôsaka. Kobé once settled, the
39 VII(1)| settled the fate of the Ôsaka Concession.
40 VII | there has been at Tôkyô: Ôsaka "goes slow" and invests
41 VII | railway. Of all the houses in Ôsaka, the office of the "Asahi
42 VII | handsomest buildings in Ôsaka. But it proved to be an
43 VII | simplicity of life.~III~ Ôsaka is the great commercial
44 VII | eyes to certain dangers. Ôsaka is really the most unsafe
45 VII | I confess that I went to Ôsaka chiefly to see the temples,
46 VII | Besides Tennôji, Ôsaka has many famous temples,
47 VII | does, - the smoke of modern Ôsaka, he might well think, "My
48 VII | other famous temples of Ôsaka, - several of which are
49 VII | wilderness of wooden sheds, and Ôsaka is no exception.~p. 173}~
50 VII | more charming homes than Ôsaka. Kyôto is, indeed, much
51 VII | little space for gardens in Ôsaka; but I am speaking of the
52 VII | the alcove of my room in Ôsaka: - The wall was covered
53 VII | VII~ My last day in Ôsaka was given to shopping, -
54 VII | same in all the shops of Ôsaka?"~ "Yes, - everywhere
55 VII | upon me during my stay in Ôsaka.~ I found myself wondering
56 VIII | cheap cotton prints from an Ôsaka mill not less than in the
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