Queer things about Japan . A toysellor, and To back (/h w ^ fish-hawkers. STREET SCENES alliance that means nearly everywhere now, he wasa blessing, because he did not display his authorityagainst foreigners, and was aching to display it onsomeone, and could always be invoked to treat youas if you were a house on fire, and keep back thespectators while you took a snapshot or painted apicture. Time is no more to a Japanese than it isto an Italian. Even in Tokyo a foreigner draws abigger crowd than a conjuror, and a Jap likes to beclose when he is looking. If it was not for themidshipmites of
Queer things about Japan . A toysellor, and To back (/h w ^ fish-hawkers. STREET SCENES alliance that means nearly everywhere now, he wasa blessing, because he did not display his authorityagainst foreigners, and was aching to display it onsomeone, and could always be invoked to treat youas if you were a house on fire, and keep back thespectators while you took a snapshot or painted apicture. Time is no more to a Japanese than it isto an Italian. Even in Tokyo a foreigner draws abigger crowd than a conjuror, and a Jap likes to beclose when he is looking. If it was not for themidshipmites of police, in ten minutes an artistwould be part of a human ant-heap. You alwaysknow when you are outside a theatre or temple bythe rows and rows of absurd boots and shoes andsandals and clogs. The Japanese always leaves hisboots outside when he goes into anything—even apolice court. To use his own phrase, he does notmake a street of a house. The entrance to a temple is marked by a hugered gateway. The outside of a theatre is hung atthe same angle as a bedro
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