Japan and the Japanese illustrated . tains this democratic breadth, criticism must merely bow and be silent. I passon to the most picturesque details of the ceremony. Here comes the patron ofthe sacred dance of the Dairi. The image, dressed in the old theatrical garments ofKioto, is raised upon a huge drum, supported by figurantes in costumes of festiveform and crowns of flowers. This is followed by the procession of the white animal is made of cardboard, and its bearers are skilfully hidden in its capaciousbody; their feet are hardly seen moving under the legs of the colossus, wh
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . tains this democratic breadth, criticism must merely bow and be silent. I passon to the most picturesque details of the ceremony. Here comes the patron ofthe sacred dance of the Dairi. The image, dressed in the old theatrical garments ofKioto, is raised upon a huge drum, supported by figurantes in costumes of festiveform and crowns of flowers. This is followed by the procession of the white animal is made of cardboard, and its bearers are skilfully hidden in its capaciousbody; their feet are hardly seen moving under the legs of the colossus, which is precededby a band of music, composed of flutes, trumpets, big drums, cymbals, gongs, and T T 2 .S24 LIFE IN JAPAN. tambourines. Jhc men of this group wear beards, a painted Lat with an aigrette,boots, a long robe with a wide girdle, and some of them carry Chinese bannerscovered witli images of dragons. A little further on a gigantic lobster is carriedby a priest of tlie Kami worship, and surrounded by a troop of negroes. Then. IUUlIiSSIOX UK Al INK I-I IK iiK IllK UF SANNOO. come a Imiidrtil cultivators wlio are liarnc.^sed to the chariot of the buffalo ; thisking of ^tic aiiiinals is placed upon the veliicle under the shade of a floweringpeach-tree, and is accompauied l)y tlie demi-gdd wlio introduced him into other chaiiots are laden with picturesque tropliies formed of the implements andproducts of rice culture. A cortege of the priests of the Kami n-ligion generally THE rnOCESSTOX OF COrETEZANS. 325 forms a guard of honour to a carriage made in the likeness of tliat of thfMikado, a splendid chariot, surmounted hy the sacred gong and the cock of theDairi. Antique banners, some ornamented by sketches of horses, precede a cavalcadeof superior officers costumed according to the Court fashions of Kioto. Suddenlytwo terrible monsters appear; they have the face of the tiger with the horns of abull. Their g-reat tails are elevated high
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