Japan and the Japanese illustrated . EESTAUBANT, WITH A VIEW OF FOUSI-YAMA. CHAPTER XII. TX.\ KA. THE BELOVED SUBURB.—BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.—PLEASURE PARTIES—CARICATURE. MIXTURE OF CHILDISH AXD HEROIC ART.—GOOD NATURE.—POLITICAL SATIRES.—CHIMERAS.—THEHORRIBLE AND THE FANTASTIC.—ODJI-INARI.—KITSNE.—FOX WORSHIP AND ITS ORGIES. The northern portion of , wliich is bounded by the curve formed by thegreat river, belongs, with the three neighbouring districts, to tlie zone of Inaka. Nothing gives such an idea of the immense circumference of Yeddo than followinothe outer zone of the quarters
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . EESTAUBANT, WITH A VIEW OF FOUSI-YAMA. CHAPTER XII. TX.\ KA. THE BELOVED SUBURB.—BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.—PLEASURE PARTIES—CARICATURE. MIXTURE OF CHILDISH AXD HEROIC ART.—GOOD NATURE.—POLITICAL SATIRES.—CHIMERAS.—THEHORRIBLE AND THE FANTASTIC.—ODJI-INARI.—KITSNE.—FOX WORSHIP AND ITS ORGIES. The northern portion of , wliich is bounded by the curve formed by thegreat river, belongs, with the three neighbouring districts, to tlie zone of Inaka. Nothing gives such an idea of the immense circumference of Yeddo than followinothe outer zone of the quarters situated on the south, the west, and north of thecitadel, for it extends from the faubourg of Sinagawa, opposite the six forts of the bay, X X 2 340 LIFE IN JAPAN. and the country traversed by the iiurtliern road beyond Seujou-Obassi; aud embraceson the north of Hondja those fertile fields which are watered ou one side by theSumidagawa, and on the other by the small river which forms the eastern boundary(if the t
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