. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ertainly, no women can be more decentlyclad than those of Japan, as we may see byany of the multitudinous native drawings;and that they should attach no sense ofdecency to the dress, or indecency to its ab-sence, is one of the many strange charac-teristics of this remarkable and enigmaticcountry. The travelling dress of t
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ertainly, no women can be more decentlyclad than those of Japan, as we may see byany of the multitudinous native drawings;and that they should attach no sense ofdecency to the dress, or indecency to its ab-sence, is one of the many strange charac-teristics of this remarkable and enigmaticcountry. The travelling dress of the women is littlemore than their ordinary costume, plus alarge flat hat, which serves as a picture books abound with illustra- tions of women travelling, and, multitudi-nous as they are, each has always some char-acteristic point, and no two are exactly we see the women saunteringquietly along the river bank, sometimesthey are being carried across the river onthe shoulders of men, or, if they be of im-portance, in norimons or chairs borne bysix or eight coolies. Some of the draw-ings depict women as sitting in boats, asbeing caught in a heavy snow or rain storm(see illustration), as walking by moonlight,and as they appear when The attitude and general appearance of afemale equestrian in Japan differ consider-ably from those of an European. Side-sad-dles are unknown, the fair rider perchingherself upon a saddle which lifts her highabove the back of the animal, concealingher body downward, holding on tightly bythe front part of the saddle, and, in fact, giv-ing herself a look very much resemblingthat of a gayly attired monkey on horse-back, as shown on the next page. This modeof riding is even followed by the oppositesex, the retainers of the high nobles sittingin their lofty saddles in very much the sameattitude as that employed by the women,and being in consequence absolutely use-less, except in looks, as cavalry. Yet, when they choose
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