. Things seen in Japan . and evensmall steel springs; and also acts as baiber,shaving the ladies and girls cheeks, ears,chins, brows, and even noses, not, let it be 175 Country Life in Japan stated, of any hirsute or horrible growth,but of the peach-like down with which fewWestern women would be willing to for two hours work, or even more, thistrue artist in hairdressing receives a fee forwhich a Parisian or Bond Street tonsorialartist would scarcely condescend to givethe hair a good brush. In the towns there are, of course, manytypes of working folk whose lives it is notpossible to d
. Things seen in Japan . and evensmall steel springs; and also acts as baiber,shaving the ladies and girls cheeks, ears,chins, brows, and even noses, not, let it be 175 Country Life in Japan stated, of any hirsute or horrible growth,but of the peach-like down with which fewWestern women would be willing to for two hours work, or even more, thistrue artist in hairdressing receives a fee forwhich a Parisian or Bond Street tonsorialartist would scarcely condescend to givethe hair a good brush. In the towns there are, of course, manytypes of working folk whose lives it is notpossible to describe in detail. Theie is,for example, the ubiquitous, fleet-footed,untiring boy, who drags one about inthe hansom of Japan, the jinrilcsha; anintelligent, industrious being, clad mostlyin scanty blue cotton garments, and amushroom-shaped pith hat. The hago^ orhammock-bearers, who provide the meansof locomotion for the lazy in mountaindistricts or along paths unsuitable forjinrikshas^ are clad—well, sometimes in 176. St€tt:o Lo^yii^hi, ilttXtiu ,,/ / 1 >-thh)i ^■• .\e7c )oyk. A roitiiNi:-J i:i,:n. A rod is chosen from the jar at the left, and the seer reads his clientsfortune from it. Country Life in Japan tatoo marks, a mushroom hat, and a smile,and little else. The art of the professionaltatooer, a wonderful draughtsman andworker in coloured inks, is often seen to greatadvantage on the backs, arms, and legsof jinriksha boys and kago there are the women who coal thesteamers, with their clean (at the start)blue and white kerchiefs knotted roundtheir heads, big palm-leaf hats, and coaling-baskets. A strange, unfeminine occupationsurely, and one that at first strikes theforeigner as singularly unsuited to theirphysique! And yet how strong they reallyare is speedily demonstrated as one watchesthem coaling a steamer from the lightersalongside—busy and quick in their move-ments as a regiment of ants. Then thereare their brothers, the sampan men, whoses
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