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APPENDIX

PROVINCES AND PREFECTURES

HE following list gives in detail the divisions of Japan into Provinces (Kuni), according to "Circuits":

Go-Kinai (Five Home Provinces). Yamashiro, Yamato,
Kawachi, Izumi (or Senshiu), Settsu (or Sesshiu).
Tokaido (Eastern Sea Road). Iga, Ise, Shima, Owari,
Mikawa, Tōtōmi, Suruga, Kai, Izu, Sagami, Musashi,
Awa (or Bōshiu), Kazusa, Shimōsa, Hitachi.

Tōsando (Eastern Mountain Road). Omi, Mino, Hida,
Shinano (or Shinshiu), Kōzuke (or Jōshiu), Shimozuke,
Iwaki, Iwashiro, Rikuzen, Rikuchu, Mutsu, Uzen,
Ugo.
Hokurikudo (North Land Road). Wakasa, Echizen,
Kaga, Noto, Etchu, Echigo, Sado Island.

Sanindo (Mountain Shade Road). Tamba, Tango,
Tajima, Inaba, Hōki, Izumo, Iwami, Oki Islands.
Sanyōdo (Mountain Sunlight Road). Harima (or Ban-
shiu), Mimasaka, Bizen, Bitchū, Bingo, Aki, Suwō,
Nagata (or Chōshiu).

Nankaido (Southern Sea Road). Kii (or Kishiu), Awaji Island, Awa, Sanuki, Iyo, Tosa (or Toshiu), of which the last four are in the island of Shikoku.

Saikaido (Western Sea Road). Chikuzen, Chikugo, Buzen, Bungo, Hizen, Higo, Hyuga, Ösumi, Satsuma (or Sasshiu), Iki Island, Tsushima Island, of which all except the last two are on the island of Kyūshiu,

Hokkaido (Northern Sea Road). Oshima, Shiribeshi, Iburi, Ishikari, Hitaka, Tokachi, Teshiwo, Kushiro, Nemuro, Kitami (all on the island of Yezo), and Chishima, or the Kurile Islands.

Ryukyu (Loo Choo) Islands. This group constituted. one, the 85th, Kuni.

The following is the list of Japanese Prefectures (Ken and Fu):

The Fu number three : Tōkyō, Kyōto, and Ōsaka.
The Ken number forty-three: Kanagawa, Saitama,
Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Nagano, Yamanashi,
Shizuoka, Aichi, Miye, Gifu, Shiga, Fukui, Ishikawa,
Toyama, Niigata, Fukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata,
Akita, Iwate, Aomori, Nara, Wakayama, Hyōgo,
Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Tottori,
Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kōchi, Nagasaki, Saga,
Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Ōita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and
Okinawa (Ryūkyū Islands).

Hokkaido and Formosa are at present administered as "territories" by the Imperial Government, although the former has recently been granted a small measure of local self-government.

TABLES OF JAPANESE MONEY, WEIGHT, AND

MEASURE 1

Length (Sashi). Japanese Weights and Measures.

As the use of the Japanese weights and measures is becoming more and more frequent in reports and books from the Far East, the following tables will be found useful to all persons who wish to ascertain the equivalents of the Japanese terms in similar terms in use in the United States and in England:

1 From "Japan and America."

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aku.

aku.

rin.

sun.

rin.

i mō.

aku.

I go.

1 go. 5 gō.

ime.

ime.

ime.

Ime.

sme.