Ben Nevis, 394

Bento 110, 268, 279

Bergson, 99

Beri beri, 79

Berry, Sir G., 9

Better living, 370;
  Better world, 90

Bi, 126

Bible, 95

Bicycles, 18, 150, 220

Binyon, L., 292

Birches, 316

Birds, 25, 117, 344

Births,
  see Still;
  Celebration of, 302;
  Forbidden, 236;
  Rate, 392;
  Tax, 21

Biscuits, 270

Biwa, 289

Black and white company, 187

Black Country, 132

“Black sake”, 79

Blacksmith, 264

Blake, William, 98, 103, 105-6

Blind,
  see Amma, 192, 300;
  Advantage of Blindness, 232;
  Blind guides, 369;
  Headman, 229

Blood and thunder stories 121

Boar day 126

Boasting 17

Boat, sacred, 257

Body 226

Boehme 99

Bog 390

“Bold is the donkey driver” 98

Bolting ideas 331

Bon 180, 190, 265, 267, 271-2, 302, 361;
  Songs and dances 189, 190, 197 (2), 274

Bonins 391

Bonito 297

Books 159, 190, 319, 401;
  Cheap 212;
  Faults of many about Japan 254;
  Foreign 141, 196, 248;
  In demand 60;
  In a Village Library 60;
  Shops 244

Booths 115

Boots 236, 284, 346

Borneo 127

Borrow vi, 119, 283

Borrowing,
  see Credit, Ko, Tanomoshi; 125, 183

Boswell, 140, 175

Bottles, tied with rope, 119

Bowing 44 (2), 46, 83, 121, 286, 313

Bowels 348, 351

Bowls, Turning, 111;
  at shrine 303

Box for letters for Police 111

Boy
  Growth of 113;
  Labour 411;
  Tradesmen’s 315;
  Reformation of 178;
  Running away 322;
  Stolen 286;
  “Boy San” 103

Brazil 401

Bread 80 (2), 346 (2), 350-1 (2), 383

Bream 297

Breath 117

Brewing, see Hokkaido, 119

Bribery 208, 400; 123, 303

Bride 21;
  Chest 129, 379

Bridges 128, 132, 240;
  Mysteriously repaired, 287;
  Suspension 209

Briefness 292

Bright, John, 203

Britons, see Hokkaido, 403

Broadmindedness 326

Bronte, E., 99

Brothels 56, 222, 243

Brother, Eldest, 19, 329

Brotherly union 94-5

Buckwheat, see Hokkaido; 111, 122, 243, 264, 381, 409;
  “As white as snow” 111

Buddha 1, 3, 4, 5, 19, 26 (2), 51, 58 117, 125, 142, 205-6;
  Inferior 139;
  Heads 310. 
  —­Buddhism 19, 30, 42, 57 (2), 63 (3), 96, 101,
  197, 205, 210, 212, 322, 324;
    and Animal life 59, 345, 347;
    behind the age 6;
    without Buddha 322, 327;