. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. d outstretched legs is just as true tonature as the others, all the attitudes havingbeen undoubtedly taken from nature. The porcelain of the Japanese is singularlybeautiful, and sometimes is adorned withornaments which may be reckoned underthe head of conceits. Eor instance, a cupwill be adorned with a representation ofpl
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. d outstretched legs is just as true tonature as the others, all the attitudes havingbeen undoubtedly taken from nature. The porcelain of the Japanese is singularlybeautiful, and sometimes is adorned withornaments which may be reckoned underthe head of conceits. Eor instance, a cupwill be adorned with a representation ofpleasure boats on the river. With a needlethe tiny windows of the boats can be raised,when a party of ladies and gentlemen drink-ing tea are discovered inside the a little tortoise may be seenreposing quietly at the bottom of the cup,until the hot tea is poured into it, when thecreature rises to the surface, shaking itshead and kicking with its legs as if in painfrom the hot liquid. In Japanese pictures certain curiousfigures may be seen, looking as if humanbeings had been wrapped in a bundle ofrushes. This strange costume is the snow-cloak of the ordinary Japanese. For mererain the Japanese generally wear a sort ofovercoat made of oiled paper, very thin,. candlestick and censers. (From Sir Hope Grants Collection.)71 1466 JAPAN. nearly transparent, and very efficient, thoughit is easily torn. But when a snow-stormcomes on, the Japanese endues another gar-ment, which is made in a way equally sim-ple and effective. A sort of skeleton is made of network, themeshes being about two inches in each point of the mesh is tied a bunchof vegetable fibre, like very fine grass, thebundles being about as thick as an ordinarypencil where they are tied, and spreadingtoward the ends. The garment thus madeis exceedingly light, and answers its purposein the most admirable manner. The bunchesof fibres overlapping each other like thetiles of a house, keep the snow far fro
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