. How we are sheltered; a geographical reader . e mud. Japanese shinglesare much smaller than ours, and the carpenteruses bamboo pegs for nails. Here is the house to which we have been in-vited. Our friends see us, and come out to bidus welcome, as we step on to the veranda. LittleKiku makes a low bow and assists us to removeour shoes. Kiku means chrysanthemum, formany girls in Japan are named from not wistaria and hyacinth pretty names forthe dainty little maidens? The Japanese neverwear their wooden shoes or geta, as they call them,in the house. You will understand why a littlela
. How we are sheltered; a geographical reader . e mud. Japanese shinglesare much smaller than ours, and the carpenteruses bamboo pegs for nails. Here is the house to which we have been in-vited. Our friends see us, and come out to bidus welcome, as we step on to the veranda. LittleKiku makes a low bow and assists us to removeour shoes. Kiku means chrysanthemum, formany girls in Japan are named from not wistaria and hyacinth pretty names forthe dainty little maidens? The Japanese neverwear their wooden shoes or geta, as they call them,in the house. You will understand why a littlelater. The door does not swing open as the doors inour houses do. It is a panel that slides backand forth, having a frame of wood and beingcovered with paper. The walls and the parti- WHERE THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GROWS 53 tions between the rooms are of this same panels are usually about three feet wide. The partitions between the rooms are arrangedto slide in grooves made in the ceiling and thefloor. Sometimes the partitions are of plain. Pig. 22.—Kikus Home. paper and sometimes they are ornamented withbeautiful paintings. It may be a picture ofFuji-Yama, the sacred mountain, snow cappedagainst a sky of cloudless blue. Or perhaps onesees soaring through the clear air birds of mar- 54 HOW WE ARE SHELTERED velous plumage; or perhaps it is a garden withblossoms of violet^ of crimson, or of gold. Oftenthese partitions are taken out, and the wholehouse is thrown into one room. If Kiku could step into your house, she wouldbe much surprised to see the glass windows. Inher home, and in many others in Japan, the win-dows are of paper. The windows are calledshoji. They are much like the paper walls be-tween the rooms, but you notice that the paperis white. Paper of this color lets in more two feet above the floor, in the shoji ofsome houses, there are pieces of glass. The Japanese are skilled paper makers. Eventheir tissue paper is tough and durable, of a finerquality
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