Japan and the Japanese illustrated . p fog into the eyes of thebelated passenger, who believes that he sees the roofs of his hamlet upon the horizon,but this is only an illusion which lures him still farther into the vast swamp. The Yama tori, or silver pheasant, makes a mirror of his plumage. He is aninvulnerable being. does not fly from the sight of the sportsman; but woe to thelatter if he attempt to harm him, or to pursue him into the defiles of the mountains,for lie will never return. Old wolves have the gift of metamorphosis. One especially large wolf suddenly dis-appeared from the c
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . p fog into the eyes of thebelated passenger, who believes that he sees the roofs of his hamlet upon the horizon,but this is only an illusion which lures him still farther into the vast swamp. The Yama tori, or silver pheasant, makes a mirror of his plumage. He is aninvulnerable being. does not fly from the sight of the sportsman; but woe to thelatter if he attempt to harm him, or to pursue him into the defiles of the mountains,for lie will never return. Old wolves have the gift of metamorphosis. One especially large wolf suddenly dis-appeared from the country, in which he had long been the terror of travellers, butwhen they thought they might heiicefoi-th go their ways in safety, they met at nightfall,just at the corner of the wood, a beautiful girl who carried a lantern, painted like aliouquet of roses, in her hand. She is well known through all the country-side underthe name of the Bcautv witli llie liose-Linteiii. Alas! everv traveller who has followed J A PA Xb\^E LEUESDS. 2G3. TIIK SOUL OK TlIK OLD her lias fallen into the jaws of the wolf. TluM-o was another girl, who, as seen frmnafar, had all the graces uf her sex, but a man who saw her face to facea ilenion. liiMlrlil 2(i4 LIFE IX JAFAX Taile-vauKi is a vltv high mountain, with a deep crater in its summit. Onlookino- into the gulf, tlie horrified traveller Leholds a basin filled with human blood,and this Ijlood boils, heated by the voleano : such a place, says the bonze, can onlyI)e one of the departments of hell. All maladies which break out for the first time among the people have a diabolicaloriijiii. The demon of small-pox came to Japan by sea. He was dressed in a redtunic, and he l)orr a letter addressed, no one knows by whom, to the Divine patronof the Empire. In the sanctuary of some of the old bonze houses, barbed arrow-headsof flint and jasper, lancedieads in the form of spits, knives and axes of basalt andof jade, are exhibited. These instruments,
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