Queer things about Japan . A stiiit nsUiUiiiil ami To oack on f. b/.. ail open-air teahouse. CHAPTER VI JAPANESE SHOPS To start a Japanese shop is also the simplest thingin the world. You take off the front of your house,and arrange any of your worldly possessions youare disposed to part with on the floor. Japanesefloors are raised off the street, though nothing israised off the floor. The transient customer sitson the edge of the floor, side-saddle. A realshopper, who means to do the thing properly, likepeasants buying jewellery in Italy, climbs up onthe floor, which is also the counter, and
Queer things about Japan . A stiiit nsUiUiiiil ami To oack on f. b/.. ail open-air teahouse. CHAPTER VI JAPANESE SHOPS To start a Japanese shop is also the simplest thingin the world. You take off the front of your house,and arrange any of your worldly possessions youare disposed to part with on the floor. Japanesefloors are raised off the street, though nothing israised off the floor. The transient customer sitson the edge of the floor, side-saddle. A realshopper, who means to do the thing properly, likepeasants buying jewellery in Italy, climbs up onthe floor, which is also the counter, and squats onhis heels. Unless compelled by foreign influence,Japanese shops do not have doors or windows orcounters. Shop windows in New York do notleave much opening — or, perhaps, I should sayclosing —for anything else in a twelve-footfrontage ; but even an American shop window doesnot give such opportunities as taking the wholefront off your house. The Japanese do not have many formal shops. 67 QUEER THINGS ABOUT JAPAN There are very few streets of shops even i
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