Japan and the Japanese illustrated . at cities. It contains manufactories of tiles and of coarse pottery, kitchenutensils in iron, paper factories, and workshops for the cleaning and preparation ofcotton, for the weaving of cotton and silk fabrics, dyeing vats, weavers shops, basketmakers, and mat plaiters. HONDJO. 229 Japanese industry has not yet utilized machinery. There are, indeed, iron foundries,in which the bellows are moved by an hydraulic wheel, over which the water isdirected by tubes of bamboo. The combustible material is composed of charcoaland coal, the former of excellent quality
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . at cities. It contains manufactories of tiles and of coarse pottery, kitchenutensils in iron, paper factories, and workshops for the cleaning and preparation ofcotton, for the weaving of cotton and silk fabrics, dyeing vats, weavers shops, basketmakers, and mat plaiters. HONDJO. 229 Japanese industry has not yet utilized machinery. There are, indeed, iron foundries,in which the bellows are moved by an hydraulic wheel, over which the water isdirected by tubes of bamboo. The combustible material is composed of charcoaland coal, the former of excellent quality. Women have their share in everykind of industry. No great manufactories exist in Japan ; neither the occupationnor the population of our factories is represented there. The working classes labourin their own houses, interrupting their toil by eating when they are hungry, andresting when it pleases them. In a group of six artizans of both sexes, we alwaysfind one or two smoking their pipes and enlivening their comrades by their gay. • -?j: Aiimms, A FUNERAL PROCESSION LEAVING THE HOUSE. talk. Thus from generation to generation an instinct of sociability is transmitted,^?-apssd good humour and repartee generally characterize the lower classes of the Yeddo, as in all other capitals through which a river runs, the population ofthe lower bank and that of the centre of the city present entirely different has not the continual movement, the imposing mass of the residenceswitliin the citadel, nor the animation of the places reserved for the pleasures of thecrowil in the northern quarter. Nevertheless, we find in it commerce, industry^ 230 LTFE IN JAPAN. temples, palaces, and places of public amusement, but under quite special of the great merchants of Japan live in Hondjo, while their counting-housesare in the quarters of Kio-bassi, or Niphon-bassi, after the fashion of the greatmerchants of Rotterdam, who have their houses at Vercade, and
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