. The mikado's empire. bited theirpluck and skill by diving many fathoms down in the deep water ofthe rocky recesses; or, strapping a basket on their backs, they swamfar out, knife in hand, to reap a submarine harvest from the returned in a half-hour, heavily laden with awabi (sea-ears) andspiral univalves. These they afterward roasted in their own shells, 522 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. and offered us. At the merchants home, decked in their best robesand coifs, they danced and sung their wild fishers songs for us. Inthe village I saw a famous sculptor in wood, who was carving a horsein lif
. The mikado's empire. bited theirpluck and skill by diving many fathoms down in the deep water ofthe rocky recesses; or, strapping a basket on their backs, they swamfar out, knife in hand, to reap a submarine harvest from the returned in a half-hour, heavily laden with awabi (sea-ears) andspiral univalves. These they afterward roasted in their own shells, 522 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. and offered us. At the merchants home, decked in their best robesand coifs, they danced and sung their wild fishers songs for us. Inthe village I saw a famous sculptor in wood, who was carving a horsein life size for a Shinto shrine. Though faulty in some details ofanatomy, the fire and grace of motion were wonderfully life-hke. InFukui, the week before, I had seen an artist dip his long, little finger-nail in ink and draw figures on a fan, and with astonishing rapidityfurnished a very spirited design of a horse in motion, after Hokusaisstyle, with but seven strokes, and a few sweeps of a wide brush forthe mane and Seven-stroke Sketch. Wild Horse of Nambn. May IQth.—By orders received to-day from the Central Govern-ment of Toki5, two students are to be chosen from each han, and sentabroad to study. This will enable several hundred young men to seeand live in Europe and America. It is also a political move to uniteall parts of the empire together, and show even the people of the late-ly rebellious portions that they are to partake of the national our han^ one is to be elected by the officers and one by myself. THE LAST YEAR OF FEUDALISM. 523 The choice of the former is Yamaoka Jiro.* I chose from a dozenor more, equally worthy, Kinamera Over four hundred stu-dents will embark for America during this and the following month. The rice-fields of the whole country are now lakes of rich mud-pulp, the paradise of polliwigs. An expanse of an exquisite lightgreen covers many parts of the valley. All the rice is transplanted,having been first sown broadcast i
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