. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . mportance : the bathing is thething. Dozens of folk of all sorts and conditions—young men and maidens, old men and children,pilgrims, students, sufferers from lifes ills—willpack into a third-rate hotel, covering the mustytatami like leaves in Vallombrosa, rather thanforego their midsummer soak. Is it not onrecord that a miserable hut, 5,000 feet up onthe flank of Bandaisan, was harbouring a scoreof souls when the great eruption took place ? Recourse to a cure in the Western worldis costly. The thermal waters, captured forexpl
. Japan's inheritance, the country, its people, and their destiny . mportance : the bathing is thething. Dozens of folk of all sorts and conditions—young men and maidens, old men and children,pilgrims, students, sufferers from lifes ills—willpack into a third-rate hotel, covering the mustytatami like leaves in Vallombrosa, rather thanforego their midsummer soak. Is it not onrecord that a miserable hut, 5,000 feet up onthe flank of Bandaisan, was harbouring a scoreof souls when the great eruption took place ? Recourse to a cure in the Western worldis costly. The thermal waters, captured forexploitation by a syndicate, are encased in apump-room, or a karsaal, and society flockingthereto is forced to keep up the conventions andartificialities of everyday life. In Japan thepresence of the hot spring is seldom marked byanything more than a foliage-embowered collec-tion of rough huts, above whose shingle roofsfloat wreaths of steam and sulphurous the large wooden tanks which constitutethe baths themselves—often with little more than 212. GENESIS OF A MOUNTAIN SPA : NOBORIBETSU. In the foirgroiiiid. the crater; beyond, the solfataras ; inthe distance, the roofs of the village.
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