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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1888 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. Street Scenes. Shadow Pictures--Street Names--/Esthetic Mud-pies--Kite Flying--A Hint for Arctic Explorers--Fishy Conduct of an English Professor--The Queen's English--A Japanese Crowd--A Baby Cook Shop. A GREAT deal of Japanese life is passed in the streets, and can best be seen there. In the good times for which old-fashioned Japanese people sigh, much more of the domestic doings were visible to the public than would now be considered comely or proper; but at all events there is little of that morbid concealment of private life which is so marked a feature in other Eastern countries. The houses are open from floor to roof in warm weather, and concealment is nearly impossible; and at night, when the paper windows are drawn closely together, you may see many a painful tragedy or sidesplitting comedy enacted in shadow by the unconscious inmates. Japanese caricaturists have, indeed, not been slow to seize and utilize this salient feature in the national life, and comic silhouettes or shadow-pictures are to be seen in any print-shop or bookseller's window. The cities of Tokio and Osaka are intersected with canals, and the bridges which cross them are necessarily numerous. They are often named in a very grand and poetical style: the "Bridge of Eternal Life," the " Fairy Assembly Bridge," and so on. A blind alley is called a "bag street." So great is the love of nature amongst the people of Japan, that it is said some two-thirds of the streets in Tokio are named after natural objects; a tendency which is amply illustrated by the whole decorative art of the country. Mr. Griffis has pointed out that great battlefields--and Japan has not been without them--are not commemorated in this way, nor do we find many names of heroes handed down to an admiring p...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150465215
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150465212
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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