Author
  Attitude towards Japan, xii;
  before domestic shrine, 33;
  Carried, 308;
  Chats in trains, 176;
  “Fortune”, 138;
  First Englishman in place, 126;
  Governor and, 84;
  on Hearn, 254;
  Some Conclusions, see Hokkaido, 369;
  and Police, 53;
  Reception at Shinto Shrine, 45;
  Shinto address to, 46;
  Speeches, 6, 26, 31, 254;
  Tree planting, 45;
  Welcome, 22;
  at Wrestling match, 297

Authority
  Disobedience to, 285;
  Power going, 330

Autobiography of a Farmer-Egotist, 61

Autographs, 38, 324

Automobile, see Chauffeur, 205

Autumn, 214

“Average workers”, 62, 377

Awakening, 324

Axholme, Isle of, 71

Aza xxv, 15, 16, 262, 315

Azaleas, 316

Babies, 285

Backbreaking, 75, 208

Back to the Land, 88

Backwardness of North,
  see Japan, Northern

Bacon, 347

Bacon, Lord, xii, 309

Bactericides, 60

“Bad tea has its tolerable,” etc., 123

Bag and string, 312

Balls, Black and red, 19

Bamboo, 48, 318, 244, 248;
  Grass, 70, 108, 352, 368;
  and Mice, 108;
  Rate of growth, 242;
  Shoots, 136;
  Work, 248

Bancha, 294, 403

Bankruptcy, 138

Banks, 205, 303, 402, 414

Banqueting, 357

Banzai, 43

Barbers, 224, 267

Barefoot, 64

Bark strips, 190

Barley, 146, 175, 196, 307, 313 (3), 349, 351, 386, 389, 391, 409, 410;
  Big crop, 313;
  Husking, 389;
  Naked, 409;
  with and without Rice, 47, 80, 85, 383, 387;
  Production compared with Wheat, 413

Barons x, 204

Barriers ix, 104

Barter, 122

Barton, Sir E., 9

Basha, see Hokkaido, 244;
  story, 217

Baskets, 177, 215

Baths x, 17, 50, 82, 109, 112, 116-7, 190, 203, 215, 256, 277, 314, 354;
  “A moral bath”, 94;
  Bathing, 125, 152, 186

Battleship, 235

Bayonets, Imitation, 282

Bazin Rene, 141

Beans, see Soya, 147, 199, 307, 383, 409;
  Cake, 386

Beardsley, Aubrey, 98, 103

Bears, see Hokkaido, 110

Beauty, see Hokkaido, 104, 127, 298

“Be diligent”, 158;
  “Be serious”, 112

Beef, see Kobe beef, 259, 349, 350;
  Essence, 158

Beer, see Hokkaido, 119, 396

Bees, 196, 348

Beggars, 265, 324

Begonia, 213

Behaviour, Training in good, 259

Belgium, 386

Beliefs, see Customs, 310, 331;

Believers, 63;
  Believer and ne’er do well, 5

Belly cloths, 269

Benjo, 151, 192, 374