By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . INTERIOR OF JAPANESE HOUSE. THE AGILE LITTLE CARPENTER FREQUENT « SIESTAS * 197 least evince much patience and a marvellous de-gree of skill in planing the most cross-grained andknotty board to a polish. Some of his tools are ofa Western type, others are ingeniously native. Oneof the much-used tools is the adz, with which, whentwo or three men are edging a log, their strokes arealternate and as regular in measure as when they(hammer nails, or when the farmers thrash withflail, or a few coolies pound rice mochi, or a gangof four or five sect
By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . INTERIOR OF JAPANESE HOUSE. THE AGILE LITTLE CARPENTER FREQUENT « SIESTAS * 197 least evince much patience and a marvellous de-gree of skill in planing the most cross-grained andknotty board to a polish. Some of his tools are ofa Western type, others are ingeniously native. Oneof the much-used tools is the adz, with which, whentwo or three men are edging a log, their strokes arealternate and as regular in measure as when they(hammer nails, or when the farmers thrash withflail, or a few coolies pound rice mochi, or a gangof four or five section hands work their picks justas uniformly as a squad of soldiers shoulder theirguns, take aim, fire, etc. But all such mechanicalexertions quite often come to a sudden end, and tinypipes are leisurely pufied, tea drunk and storiestold in genuine Oriental fashion. XX THE JAPAI^ESE YADOYA WHILE tea-houses and inns, like ordinaryresidences, are usually one-storied, ho-tels are commonly two-story structureswith flags and gay lanterns hanging in arrival, the baggage i
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