Japan and the Japanese illustrated . we call cabinets, are sometimes too lieaAily laden with incrustationsof porcelain and mother-of-pearl, silver, and even gold, we may be quite sure thatthe native workmen have been obliged to study the caprices of foreign purchasers,who want to find in the Niphon market something of the heavy splendour of theChinese shops. 240 LIFE IN JAPAN. An indispensable ceremonial -in all Japanese banquets is the service of beverage is brought in solemnly in large lacquered jars or in cans of large or small cups from which it is to be drunk are made
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . we call cabinets, are sometimes too lieaAily laden with incrustationsof porcelain and mother-of-pearl, silver, and even gold, we may be quite sure thatthe native workmen have been obliged to study the caprices of foreign purchasers,who want to find in the Niphon market something of the heavy splendour of theChinese shops. 240 LIFE IN JAPAN. An indispensable ceremonial -in all Japanese banquets is the service of beverage is brought in solemnly in large lacquered jars or in cans of large or small cups from which it is to be drunk are made of fine red lacquer,and ornamented with fantastic designs, with gold-leaf or rich paintings, coveredwith a transparent glaze. Some of these beautiful cups represent the most celebratedlandscapes in Japan, or the most remarkable towns situated between the two are even some of a still more sumptuous order formed of the nautilus inmother-of-pearl, the heliotis, and other beautiful shells ornamented with silver OGAWA-ltATA DOCKS AND WAIiEUOUSES. CHAPTER V. A S A K S A - T E R A. BONZE-HOUSES. —QUANNOX.—A DISTPaBUTION OF TALISMANS.—BRAZEN STATUES.—AGGLOMERA-TION OF BUILDINGS. — FOX-WORSUIP.—PORTRAITS OF COURTEZANS.—BUDDHIST WORSHIP.—MODERN CORRUPTION OF THE OLD DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES. Over one hundred bonzc-houscs, each composed of a more or less considerable numberof buildings, such as monasteries, temples, pagodas, chapels, tea-houses, and shops, formthe central division of the quarter of Asaksa-Imato. The greatest and most famousis that of Quannon, a Buddhist divinity, to whom is attributed tlu magical power ofintercession between heaven and earth. The celebrity of this bonze-house comjiletely the other holy places of the neighbourhood, so that in the language of the peoplethe word Asaksa-Tera is never usetl to designate any other temple than that of Quannonin the quarter of Asaksa. I 1 2-1:2 LIFE IN JAPAN. At the soiitliern
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