Japan and the Japanese illustrated . he gardenwith its tanks and its delicious shades. Such is the inviolable and silent asylumin wliich the proud ])ainii(j shuts himself up in the bosom of his family, during thesix months of each year wliich the custom of the Empire obliges him to jiass inthe (rapital. We could form an idea of the dwellings of the Japanese nobility only from whatmight be discerned in a birds-tye view of this quarter. No European has ever crossed PANORAMIC VIEW OF YEDLO. 185 the threshold of a Japanese Yaski. The Taikouns miuistcrs, following the example ofthe nobility, have n
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . he gardenwith its tanks and its delicious shades. Such is the inviolable and silent asylumin wliich the proud ])ainii(j shuts himself up in the bosom of his family, during thesix months of each year wliich the custom of the Empire obliges him to jiass inthe (rapital. We could form an idea of the dwellings of the Japanese nobility only from whatmight be discerned in a birds-tye view of this quarter. No European has ever crossed PANORAMIC VIEW OF YEDLO. 185 the threshold of a Japanese Yaski. The Taikouns miuistcrs, following the example ofthe nobility, have never permitted the foreign ambassadors to visit their dwellings;their personal relations are restricted to ceremonial audiences, which take place incertain l)uildings wliicli belong to the administration, and correspond to the ministrrialresidences in our country. Among this number are the two Alarine Schools on tlicshore of the bay, and the Gokandjo-bounio, the seat of the Finance Department, at thenorth-west extremity of TlIK IATIUINS OF SAKI. Edifices of this kind have in general the same external appearance as the the Daimios. The panorama seen from Atago?a-yama shows us only a ftnirth part of the greatcapital. On the north our view was bounded liy tlic walls of the rc-^icUiices of theTaikoiin. We resolved to devute another day to tlie quarter which, with the eiladel,ibrms the central portion of Yeddo. The road we were about to follow resembled a mysterious labyrinth of stone, formedni the ramparts, the towers, and the palaces, behind which the power of the Taikounlias entrenched itself for two centuries and a half. B B 186 LIFE IN JAPAX. It is an spectacle, l)Ut it creates a painful impression. The political orderof things instituted in Japan liy the usurper lyeyas vaguely recalls the regime of theVenetian Republic under the rule of the Council of Ten. It has, if not all its grandeur,at least all its terrors—the sombre majesty of the chi
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