. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. crown of the causeway,with many openings in its pavement covering by whichthe villagers may draw water. About the roots of thecryptomeria trees the soil is of a remarkably pale brick-red colour, as if mixed with iron, while under the roots it 1 rip to the Tomb of lyeyasu. 159 is white and dry and very like touchwood in saw, in passing through Utsunomiya, that this materialwas liberally applied to the roots of some flowering cherrytrees which adorn the main streets. Well, the westering sun had sunk to rest behind a wallo
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. crown of the causeway,with many openings in its pavement covering by whichthe villagers may draw water. About the roots of thecryptomeria trees the soil is of a remarkably pale brick-red colour, as if mixed with iron, while under the roots it 1 rip to the Tomb of lyeyasu. 159 is white and dry and very like touchwood in saw, in passing through Utsunomiya, that this materialwas liberally applied to the roots of some flowering cherrytrees which adorn the main streets. Well, the westering sun had sunk to rest behind a wallof forest clad mountains ere we entered Nikko, or ratherHachi-ishi, pushing our way through a laughing, tea-sipping crowd, clustered around a sober, quick-eyed story-teller, who was constantly waving in his hand a mosteloquent fan. The shops are chiefly devoted to the saleof various nicknacks as mementos of the pilgrimage,—photographs of glens, temples, and waterfalls, and anecstatic kind of Turkish delight, which is one of thespecialties of the Pilgrims Buying Souvenirs. {Frojn a Japanese sketch^ What can I say of the beauties of Nikko, natural orartistic, that has not already been better said ? To me, i6o Nine Years in Nipon. however, the shrines and temples were wealth, lavish expenditure of skilful workmanshipexcellent carving; there was plenty of all that, and, in addi-tion, red paint enough even to have pleased the infallibleBritish workman demonstrating on the franchise. Myfirst impression was that the august and mysteriousWombwell of our school days had set up his menageriein the midst of those silent eastern hills, an impressionwhich the brightly painted monkeys, tapirs, tigers, ele-phants, wild boars, and cranes cleverly carved on thepanels and eaves of the wooden temples did not rapidlytend to dissipate. In spite of the lack of religioussolemnity, and the artistic incoherence of the whole^added to the sense of veneer and paint everywhe
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