Japan and the Japanese illustrated . n, or smothered in branches of ivy and other climbing plants. Giganticpines, cypress-trees, and laurels, lend a charm by their picturesque grouping to the burialplaces. One of the most interesting cemeteries in the neiohbourhood of Yeddo is that ofthe Schorin ; it is specially reserved for men illustrious in letters or sciences. At the entrance of the villages, and sometimes in the open country, we find stoneserected to commemorate some historical event; and frequently little chapels built inhonour of some hero who fought in the wars which founded the dynas
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . n, or smothered in branches of ivy and other climbing plants. Giganticpines, cypress-trees, and laurels, lend a charm by their picturesque grouping to the burialplaces. One of the most interesting cemeteries in the neiohbourhood of Yeddo is that ofthe Schorin ; it is specially reserved for men illustrious in letters or sciences. At the entrance of the villages, and sometimes in the open country, we find stoneserected to commemorate some historical event; and frequently little chapels built inhonour of some hero who fought in the wars which founded the dynasty of has affixed its stamp to every place worthy of exciting the attention oftravellers. There is no grotto without its idol and its story ; there is no lake which doesnot contain a little islet with its temple dedicated to Benten. It is fortunate for the Japanese that their popular superstitions have developed inthem a love of country life, and a proper regard for the vegetable wealth in which theircountiy
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