Queer things about Japan . Kyoto, the Temple of i To back on p. the Golden Pavilion. KYOTO which are so appreciated in Japan. Another of itsglories is the fir-tree, trained in the shape of a junkin full sail; and another, the little rustic cottage forthe solemn tea-drinking ceremony, which the greatTokugawa Shogun lyeyasu had erected for hisown use on a little wooded hill. Like other Kyototemples, it contains magnificent ancient kakemonos. The temples of Kyoto are legion; but the Gionand the Chi-on-in must be mentioned, though tothe tourist, at all events, they have lost their sacred
Queer things about Japan . Kyoto, the Temple of i To back on p. the Golden Pavilion. KYOTO which are so appreciated in Japan. Another of itsglories is the fir-tree, trained in the shape of a junkin full sail; and another, the little rustic cottage forthe solemn tea-drinking ceremony, which the greatTokugawa Shogun lyeyasu had erected for hisown use on a little wooded hill. Like other Kyototemples, it contains magnificent ancient kakemonos. The temples of Kyoto are legion; but the Gionand the Chi-on-in must be mentioned, though tothe tourist, at all events, they have lost their sacredcharacter almost as much as the Asakusa Templeat Tokyo. They stand immediately below the Ya-ami Hotel, and remind one rudely of the way inwhich the Japanese are beginning to regard Kyotonow that it is no longer the seat of the Mikado. Where we talk of going to Paris, the Japanesetalk of going to Kyoto. Not that it is as fashion-able as Tokyo, which enjoys the combined patron-age of Court and Cabinet and University, butbecause it is the capital of native dissipation and
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