Japan and the Japanese illustrated . d testified his satisfaction by changing his family name to that of Fasi, or artist. The laws remained as they still are,more barbarous and cruel than the customs. For example, the punishment of crucifixion was inflicted on nolile women guilty ofadultery. A whole series of measures admirably adapted for the rapid development ofthe genius of the nation, and for imbuing it with a true sense of its strem>-thand individuality, is due to the political administration. In the year 86 ,the sovereign had census tables of the population made, and ship-building
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . d testified his satisfaction by changing his family name to that of Fasi, or artist. The laws remained as they still are,more barbarous and cruel than the customs. For example, the punishment of crucifixion was inflicted on nolile women guilty ofadultery. A whole series of measures admirably adapted for the rapid development ofthe genius of the nation, and for imbuing it with a true sense of its strem>-thand individuality, is due to the political administration. In the year 86 ,the sovereign had census tables of the population made, and ship-building yardsestablished. In the second century of our era he divided his States into ei^htadministrative circles, and these circles into sixty-eight provinces. In the fifth centuryhe sent an oflacial into each province, charged with the collection ami registration ofthe popular customs and traditions of every district. Thus the pro[>er names of eachfamily, and the titles and surnames of the provincial dynasties, were fixed. An imperial. ANCIENT NftlLl-niU. 72 LIFE IX JAPAN. road was made between the priucipal cities, five in number, and the Mikado transportedhis Court successively into each. The most important, in the seventh century, wasthe city of Osaka, on the eastern coast of the luhxud Sea. In order to confer political union, and also unity of language, letters, and generalcivilization, upon the country, a capital was indispensable, and this great want wassupplied in the eighth century by the foundation of Kioto, which became the favouritecity of the Mikado, and was his permanent residence until the twelfth century. The city of Hiogo, whose secure and spacious harbour has been for years thecentre of the maritime commerce of the Japanese Empire, is built on the coast of thebasin of Idsoumi, opposite to the north-eastern point of the island of Awadsi. AtHiogo the junks from Simonasaki discharge their cargoes from China, the Liou-KiouIslands, from Nagasaki, and from the western
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