The area and population of Tokyo—Impression of greater populousness—Street improvements—Narrow streets—Shops and sidewalks—Road-making—Dusty roads—Lamps and street repairs—Drainage—Street-names—House-numbers—Incongruities. —_Page 12._ CHAPTER III. Houses: Exterior. Name-plates—Block-buildings—Gates—The exposure of houses—Fires—House-breaking—Japanese houses in summer and winter—Storms and earthquakes—House-building—The carpenter—The garden. —_Page 24._ CHAPTER IV. Houses: Interior. The sizes of rooms—The absence of furniture—Sliding-doors—Verandahs—Tenement and other small houses—Middle-sized dwellings—The porch and anteroom—The parlour—Parlour furniture—The sitting-room—Closets and cupboards—Bed-rooms—The dining-room—Chests of drawers and trunks—The toilet-room—The library—The bath-room—Foot-warmers. —_Page 40._ CHAPTER V. Meals. Rice—_Sake_—Wheat and barley—Soy sauce—_Mirin_—Rice-cooking—Soap—Pickled vegetables—Meal trays—Chopsticks—Breakfast—Clearing and washing—The kitchen—The little hearth—Pots and pans—Other utensils—Boxes and casks—Shelves—The sink and water-supply—The midday meal—The evening meal—_Sake_-drinking. —_Page 56._ CHAPTER VI. Food. Japanese diet—Vegetables—Sea-weeds and flowers—Fish—Shell-fish—Crabs and other molluscs—Fowl—Meat—Prepared food—Peculiarities of food—Fruits—The bever—Baked potatoes and cracknel—Confectionery—Reasons for its abundance—Sponge-cake—Glutinous rice and red bean—Kinds of confectionery—Sugar in Japanese confectionery. —_Page 71._ CHAPTER VII. Male Dress. Japanese and foreign dress—Progress in the latter—Japanese clothes indispensable—_Kimono_—Cutting out—Making of an unlined dress—Short measure—Extra-sized dresses—_Yukata_—The lined _kimono_—The wadded _kimono_—Under-dress—Underwear—_Obi_—_Haori_—The crest—The uncrested _haori_—_Hakama_—Socks—How to dress Wearing of socks. —_Page 82._ CHAPTER VIII. Female Dress. Attempts at Europeanisation—Difference between Japanese and foreign dresses—Expense and inconvenience of foreign dresses—Japanese dresses not to be discarded—How the female dress differs from the male—Underwear and over-band—_Haori_—_Hakama_—_Obi_—How to tie it—The dress-_obi_—The formal dress—Home-wear—Working clothes—The sameness of form—The girl’s dress—Dress and age. —_Page 94._ CHAPTER IX. Toilet.