Japan and the Japanese illustrated . them,through which the straw cords are passed. Other workmen are employed in finishingsandals of a more luxurious kind, and packing them by dozens of pairs into the baleswhich are to be carried to the retail warehouse. I had yet to see the most peculiar of the shops in this quarter, that of the clock-maker. He was making small dials and clocks, rivalling the Cuckoos of the BlackForest, but with this difierence, that tbey are on the system of moveable hours,which increase or decrease according to the seasons. LIMITED CLOCKMAKING. :iOi) The artist, squatting
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . them,through which the straw cords are passed. Other workmen are employed in finishingsandals of a more luxurious kind, and packing them by dozens of pairs into the baleswhich are to be carried to the retail warehouse. I had yet to see the most peculiar of the shops in this quarter, that of the clock-maker. He was making small dials and clocks, rivalling the Cuckoos of the BlackForest, but with this difierence, that tbey are on the system of moveable hours,which increase or decrease according to the seasons. LIMITED CLOCKMAKING. :iOi) The artist, squatting before a little anvil fixed in the ground, is busy withthe mechanism of his chronometer, with the exception of the gong which strikes thehours. His tools, scattered round him on mats, consist of a hammer, two or threefiles, a couple of pincers, and some gimlets. AVith the exterior of the small dials, which are portable instruments of the formand size of a big chestnut, he has nothing to do ; the cases are made by the S1>J-Y0SIWAUA. — llECEPlION HALL. CHAPTER IX SIN-YOSIWAJLl. A MOTHERS SACRIFICE.—DEALING IN VICE.—BUDDHISM A^O INFANTICIDE. \\ HITHER goes that poorly-dressed woman, holding by the hand a young girl sevenyears of age, decked out in her best clothes ? After having laid her offering beforethe altar of Quannon, she slowly traverses the road across the rice-fields, whichturns to the east, and goes to Sin-Yosiwara. After an hours walking, she reachesthe external wall of the City of Vice, accessible only on one side—that of the has met no woman upon her way. The elegant norimons of the ladies, whosecoolies are carrying thcin in tliat diuHtion, arc closely shut. Individuals of every DEALING IN VICE. 311 rank meet in the city, but without saluting each other, without exchanging the smallestpoliteness. Those who belong to the class of Samourais hide themselves in a completedisguise. The houses on both sides of the public way appear to b
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