Japan and the Japanese illustrated . the fishermen draw it through the sea like an immense net, load their boats withit, and clean it carefully, collecting the little shells which cling to it in immensenumbers. When the cargo has been landed, it is dried in the sun, and then formedinto bundles tied with bands of straw, or in small parcels wrapped up in paper;the former are for exportation, and are sold by weight to the junks; the othersare sold by the 2^^cket for a few szenis, and arc to be bought either in themarket or the eating-houses. At Yeddo there is an immense consumption of shell-fish
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . the fishermen draw it through the sea like an immense net, load their boats withit, and clean it carefully, collecting the little shells which cling to it in immensenumbers. When the cargo has been landed, it is dried in the sun, and then formedinto bundles tied with bands of straw, or in small parcels wrapped up in paper;the former are for exportation, and are sold by weight to the junks; the othersare sold by the 2^^cket for a few szenis, and arc to be bought either in themarket or the eating-houses. At Yeddo there is an immense consumption of shell-fish : the dealer fills his FISH. 219 tubs, in which he sliakes and turns them about with long bamboo sticks, afterwhich he sets forth, crying his wares. Sea-leeches, and all sorts of little molluscs,the trcpang, and the whole class of radiates arc sold in a dry state. They arceaten fried, and most frequently cut into pieces mingled with rice. One sort of fish,very thin, long, and narrow, is simply dried in the sun, and eaten without any. FISHING. further cooking. Oysters are abundant, but coarse. The Japanese have no methodof opening them except by breaking the upper valve with a stone. Uraga supports the whole Empire with dried oysters, belonging to the large kindcalled awabis : the Taikoun is said to have the monopoly of this trade. Although the Japanese profess, from an ajsthetic point of view, a profound dis-gust for shell-fish, they do not seem to disdain them when they are fried and laid F F 2 220 LIFE IN JAPAN. out on herbs and coloured paper. I have remarked that delicacies of this sort havea great sale in the public markets. The shops of the grain-dealers at Yeddo are very interesting, from the immensequantity and the infinite variety of the products, the diversity of their forms andcolours, and the art with which they are ranged upon the shelves. But surprise andadmiration succeed to curiosity when we perceive that on each of the parcels alreadydone up in pa
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