Japan and the Japanese illustrated . to make me understand the culinary properties of the hideous bttlcmarine monsters wliich they pile up in their baskets. This spontaneous kindliness THE RICE-GROUNDS. -ir. and cordiality is a common to all tliu lower classes of .T;i]i;uiesc than once when I have been going on foot a))out the sulturhs of Nagasaki orYokohama, the country people have invited me to step inside their little euch) they would show me their flowers, and cut the best among them to nitake up abouquet for me. It wns always in vain that I offered
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . to make me understand the culinary properties of the hideous bttlcmarine monsters wliich they pile up in their baskets. This spontaneous kindliness THE RICE-GROUNDS. -ir. and cordiality is a common to all tliu lower classes of .T;i]i;uiesc than once when I have been going on foot a))out the sulturhs of Nagasaki orYokohama, the country people have invited me to step inside their little euch) they would show me their flowers, and cut the best among them to nitake up abouquet for me. It wns always in vain that I offered them money ; they ne^?eraccepted it, and weic not satisfied until 1 had crossed their threshold and partakenof tea and i-ice-cakes with them. Spring is the most tempting stason for exploringthe coasts of the Bay of Yeddo. From the heights on its borders, the inland scene,stretching away to the foot of Fousi-yama, presents an uninterrupted successionof wooded hills and cultivated valleys, diversified by rivers or gulfs, which at a. CULTlVATKiX. distance look like lakes. The villages on their bnnks are half hidden in rich foliage ;and large farms, approached by shady roads, may be traced out at various [)ointsof the landscape. The precocity of the vegetation in the rice-grounds and on the cultivated hills, thequantity of evergreen trees on every side, deprives the springtide in Japan of thatfresh and budding aspect A\hich is one of its chief beauties elsewhere. And yet, wherecan there l)e found a more luxuriant spring vegetation, more rich in beautiful details ?All along the hedges, in the orchards, and about the villages, tufts of flowers andfoliage of dazzling hue stand out against the dark tints of a background of pines,firs, cedars, cypress, laurels, green oak, and bamlioos. Here, we find the great white 26 LIFE IN JAPAN. Howers of the wild mulberry; there, camellias growing iu the open country, as tallas our apple-trees ; everywhere, cherry-trees, plum-trees, peach-tre
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