Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822-1906), was an early supporter of Darwin's evolutionary theories and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. This 1895 volume, the last of many travel narratives he published, is an account of a sojourn in Japan. As well as describing the country's minority Christian communities, Tristram's highly readable narrative covers Japanese customs, industries, shrines and ornithology, with excursus on both native wild birds and local practices for taming them.