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                               Shibusawa

                                   or

                        The Passing of Old Japan

                                   By
                            I. William Adams

                             [Illustration]

                             Illustrated by
                           E. Dalton Stevens


                          G. P. Putnam's Sons
                          New York and London
                        The Knickerbocker Press
                                  1906




                            COPYRIGHT, 1906

                                   BY

                            I. WILLIAM ADAMS


                       =The Knickerbocker Pr