. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. rs ofhis less fortunate fellows, for an unusually long period. In many quiet by-streets you may seewomen staining ordyeing cloth in theopen air. It is a verysimple process, andno attempt is madeto produce fast colours. Chemicalsare used also to ex-tract the colour inpatterns. It is interesting to Woma7i Dyeing. (Japanese Sketch.) pCCp lUtO the VarioUS shops as we pass along the busy thoroughfare. Thefloors are covered with a fine kind of grass matting,padded underneath, and you have to take off your shoesrespectfully, or apologize f
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. rs ofhis less fortunate fellows, for an unusually long period. In many quiet by-streets you may seewomen staining ordyeing cloth in theopen air. It is a verysimple process, andno attempt is madeto produce fast colours. Chemicalsare used also to ex-tract the colour inpatterns. It is interesting to Woma7i Dyeing. (Japanese Sketch.) pCCp lUtO the VarioUS shops as we pass along the busy thoroughfare. Thefloors are covered with a fine kind of grass matting,padded underneath, and you have to take off your shoesrespectfully, or apologize for not doing so, which latterform has come to be painfully common amongst bar-barians from the West. There are all kinds of Europeannick-nacks for sale, or more frequently clever imitationsof them ; ready-made clothes of latest Parisian fashion,fire-engines, patent medicines, scientific apparatus, greatnumbers of a curious new stove invented by a J apanese,made of a frothy kind of glassy lava, the iron doorof which is very appropriately fitted with a common. Street Scenes. 51 wooden knob ! Paisley shawls and Brussels carpets;Basss beer and Eppss cocoa ; ancient suits of armour ;decanonised Buddhist saints, and rusty American sewingmachines. The Japanese merchant is not above taking les-sons from the despised hairy foreigner, and there aresome rare specimens of the Queens English to be foundnow and again in this realm of literature. Here is averitable one, not at all improved for the sake of effect:— NOTICE. SHOE MANUFACTURER. Design at any Choice. The undersigned being engaged long and succeededwith their capacity at shoe factory of Isekats, in Tokio ;it is now established in my liability at undermentionedlot all furnishment will be attended in moderate term withgood quality. A n order is acceptable^ in receive a post, being called uponthe measure and it will be forwarded in furnish. U. INOYA, No. 206, 5th St. Motomachi. When the foreigner, who is a new arrival, stands for al
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