Japan and the Japanese illustrated . happy despatch, four were made prisoners; theothers escaped—among them the chief of the expedition, who carried away theliegeuts head under his cloak. Pulilic rumour adds that the head was ex[)Osed inthe chief place of the province, in which the Prince of JMito, the instigator of theconspiracy, resides, and then at Kioto, before the buildings of the Dairi, and finallythat the Regents jieople found it one day in the garden of the palace, into which ithad been thiown, over the wall, in the night. The portions of Yeddii inhabited by the aristocracy are almost
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . happy despatch, four were made prisoners; theothers escaped—among them the chief of the expedition, who carried away theliegeuts head under his cloak. Pulilic rumour adds that the head was ex[)Osed inthe chief place of the province, in which the Prince of JMito, the instigator of theconspiracy, resides, and then at Kioto, before the buildings of the Dairi, and finallythat the Regents jieople found it one day in the garden of the palace, into which ithad been thiown, over the wall, in the night. The portions of Yeddii inhabited by the aristocracy are almost entirely devoid ofbuildings consecrated to public worshi]?. There is not one in the whole of the Dairaios<|uarter. Bantsio and Sourouga have each three temples, but they are of littleimportance. Iliere are half a ddzen in Sakourada, amongst which is a celebratedbonze-house under the invoiation of Saniiu, the Kino- of the Mountain. Its title isone of the s(u-names of Zinniou ; nevertheless the bonze-house belongs to the Buddhist. 1 =? c c 104 LIFE IN JAPAN. religion, and contains an altar consecrated to Quannon. The buildings and the grovesof the sacred place occupy a group of lulls, which rise above the southern enclosureof Sourouga, with its vast basins of limpid water surrounded by trees and flowers, andits myriads of birds.
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