Japan and the Japanese illustrated . aking place at Kamakoura, the sacerdotal and literary court of Kioto found a subjecl,of jest in it; now amusing themselves with tin; aii-s of tlie wife of the Siogoun, the badtaste which the Secondary (Jourts showed in dress, the trivial performances of the actor;the awkwardness of the dancers; and again laughing at the gaudiness of the militaryuniforms, which Yoritomo had l)rought into fasliion, or at the vulgarity of speech andmanners of those ncw-lilown orandees who ffiive themselves airs as restorers of the pontificalthrone and saviours of the l*>iu[
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . aking place at Kamakoura, the sacerdotal and literary court of Kioto found a subjecl,of jest in it; now amusing themselves with tin; aii-s of tlie wife of the Siogoun, the badtaste which the Secondary (Jourts showed in dress, the trivial performances of the actor;the awkwardness of the dancers; and again laughing at the gaudiness of the militaryuniforms, which Yoritomo had l)rought into fasliion, or at the vulgarity of speech andmanners of those ncw-lilown orandees who ffiive themselves airs as restorers of the pontificalthrone and saviours of the l*>iu[iire. P 2 lUS LIFE IX JAP AX. An imforesoon ciriiiinstaiiee arose which gave sudden imjjoitance to the Court ofKamakoiira, and eont-eutrated upon it the attention and sympathy of the nation. In the tutlflh inoiith of the year 12G8, a Mongol embassy landed at Japan. Itcame in the name of Koul)]ai-Khan who, worthy descendant of the Tartar conquerors,was destined twelve years later to take possession of China; he fixed his residence at. ^^CS^^ GY>:NASTS .U KIOTO. Pekin and founded the Yum dynasty, umlcr wliirli tin- gicat canal was is the same .sovereign who kept at his Court the Venetian ^larco Polo, tlie firsttraveller who furnished luirope with exact notions China and Japan. Hisnarratives, it is .said, exercised so decided an inthicnce upon Christopher Colundais, thatthe discoverv of America is in a due Lo them. KOUBLAI-KirAX. luJ Kdulilai-Kliau wrote to the Emperor of Nipliou :— ? I am the lieatl of a state formerly witliout importaiiee. Xow the cities aiuleouiitries whirh rriognizc my [lower ar< mimhcrless. \ am emleavouriiig to relations with the princes my neighlioiirs. 1 have put an end to thfhostilities of wliieh the land of Kaoli was the scene. The eluef of that littli-
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