. The mikado's empire. pping itsflukes like a wounded whale. The limits of this chapter forbid any long description of the lessimportant members of that ideal menagerie to which I have playedthe showman. Not a few instances have fallen under my own imme-diate notice of the pranks of two varieties of the genus tengu^ whichto the learned are symbolical of the male and female essences in THE MYTHICAL ZOOLOGY OF JAPAN. 487 Chinese philosophy. These are in the one case long-nosed, and inthe other long-billed goblins, that haunt mountain places and kidnapwicked children. Their faces are found in str
. The mikado's empire. pping itsflukes like a wounded whale. The limits of this chapter forbid any long description of the lessimportant members of that ideal menagerie to which I have playedthe showman. Not a few instances have fallen under my own imme-diate notice of the pranks of two varieties of the genus tengu^ whichto the learned are symbolical of the male and female essences in THE MYTHICAL ZOOLOGY OF JAPAN. 487 Chinese philosophy. These are in the one case long-nosed, and inthe other long-billed goblins, that haunt mountain places and kidnapwicked children. Their faces are found in street shows, in picture-books, on works of art, and even in temples, all over the native caricaturists are not afraid of them, and the funny artisthas given us a sketch of a pair who are putting the nasal elongationto a novel use, in carrying the lunches. One is being led by thenose, in a sense even stronger than the English idiom. The scrapof text, ^hanamV (to see the flowers), is their term for junketing in. Tengu going on a Picnic. (Hokusai.) the woods; but the hindmost tengu is carrying pleasure to the vergeof pain, since he has to hold up his lunch-box with his right, while hecarries his mat to sit on and table-cloth in his left hand. He of thebeak evidently best enjoys the fun of the matter. I might tell ofcats which do not exist in the world of actual observation, which havenine tails, and torment people, and of those other double-tailed felineswhich appear in the form of old women. A tortoise with a wide-fringed tail, which lives ten thousand years, is found portrayed onmiscellaneous works of art, in bronze, lacquer-ware, carved work, andin silver, and especially represented as the emblem of longevity at 488 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. marriage ceremonies. The mermaid is not only an article of manufact-ure by nimble - fingered native taxidermists, but exists in the belief ofthe Japanese fishermen as certainly as it does not exist in the ocean. Among the miracle - figu
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