Queer things about Japan . At the New YEAKb Festival with. MOCHI IN THE TOKONOMA. HOW THE JAPANESE LIVE bad height for a table if your only chair is thefloor. Tea-tables are round or square or octa-gonal, the size of a stool. Dining-tables are ayard long and half a yard wide. Brought in also,when it is required, is the Japanese reading-lamp,a square paper box with a red lacquer stand. Inorder to make the light which filters through thepaper from a rush candle go as far as possible,the servants are allowed to come in and sit alongthe sides of the room. They enter into the con-versation—there is
Queer things about Japan . At the New YEAKb Festival with. MOCHI IN THE TOKONOMA. HOW THE JAPANESE LIVE bad height for a table if your only chair is thefloor. Tea-tables are round or square or octa-gonal, the size of a stool. Dining-tables are ayard long and half a yard wide. Brought in also,when it is required, is the Japanese reading-lamp,a square paper box with a red lacquer stand. Inorder to make the light which filters through thepaper from a rush candle go as far as possible,the servants are allowed to come in and sit alongthe sides of the room. They enter into the con-versation—there is not light enough for an5i:hingelse. I have even heard of a Japanese using fire-flies for light; but this can only be done in theseason. The beautiful and idiotic reading lanternis, I regret to say, being replaced by petroleumlamps—the kind you buy in the all articles inthis window 6jd. shop. The nakedness of the land is a little less apparentduring the New Years Festival; for then theguest-chamber contains the mochi—a sort of three-tiered wedding-
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