Japan and the Japanese illustrated . rossed planks, are ^^acked EXCLUSIVUNESS OF SOCIAL LIFE. 33 with as many persous and as large a quantity of provisions as this singular equipagecan accommodate, and two of the passengers propel it with poles. The same talentfor utilizing the simplest means of action, the most primitive instruments, the mostelementary processes, is equally to be traced in the arts and handicrafts of Japan. Butthere is a very important part of their social life which either escapes us or which itis very difficult for us to study. We can only see the people at work in the fiel
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . rossed planks, are ^^acked EXCLUSIVUNESS OF SOCIAL LIFE. 33 with as many persous and as large a quantity of provisions as this singular equipagecan accommodate, and two of the passengers propel it with poles. The same talentfor utilizing the simplest means of action, the most primitive instruments, the mostelementary processes, is equally to be traced in the arts and handicrafts of Japan. Butthere is a very important part of their social life which either escapes us or which itis very difficult for us to study. We can only see the people at work in the fieldsand in some of the village sheds. The docks, the workshops, and the factories in theindustrial cities, the artistic conceptions, and the most original productions of theirautonomic civilization, are carefully hidden from us by the police restrictions of ajealous Government. Nevertheless, little l)y little the light is coming, and a daywill soon dawn when, in this respect also, Japan shall be opened to the investigationsof A HUUMITOKY IX A .lAIVMCSK IXN. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC LIFE. JAPANESE HOUSES.—PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF MEN AND WOMEN.—THEIR HOUSEHOLDLIVES, CUSTOMS, FURNITURE.—EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, SCHOOLS. Ihe country may be reached from Benten without passing through the Japanese the precincts of the holy place, a wide pathway supported on piles forms a roadalongside the river. From this road, wliich leads to a suburb occupied by poor artisans,and terminated by a military guard-house and a Customs station, we look down upon HOUSES. 35 the low streets and the marsh of Yokohama. A handsome wooden brido;o, built onpiles sufficiently high to permit the passage of sailing-boats, crosses the river, and joinsthe footpath on the left bank. By following this footpath to the north-oast, we reach the high road of Kanagawa ;and by taking the south-east direction, we come to the country roads leadiuo- to theBay of the Mississippi. The country is covered on every
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