. The mikado's empire. 460 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. pate, or huge cats and the peculiar-shaped dogs seen in the toy-shops,take the place of Daruma. Many of the amusements of the children indoors are mere imita-tions of the serious affairs of adult life. Boys who have been to thetheatre come home to imitate the celebrated actors, and to extempo-rize mimic theatricals for themselves. Feigned sickness and playingthe doctor, imitating with ludicrous exactness the pomp and solem-nity of the real man of pills and powders, and the misery of the pa-tient, are the diversions of very young children. Dinners,
. The mikado's empire. 460 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. pate, or huge cats and the peculiar-shaped dogs seen in the toy-shops,take the place of Daruma. Many of the amusements of the children indoors are mere imita-tions of the serious affairs of adult life. Boys who have been to thetheatre come home to imitate the celebrated actors, and to extempo-rize mimic theatricals for themselves. Feigned sickness and playingthe doctor, imitating with ludicrous exactness the pomp and solem-nity of the real man of pills and powders, and the misery of the pa-tient, are the diversions of very young children. Dinners, tea-parties,and even weddings and funerals, are imitated in Japanese childrensplays. Among the ghostly games intended to test the courage of, or per-haps to frighten, children, are two plays called respectively HiyakuMonogatari and Kon-dameshi, or the One Hundred Stories and Soul-examination. In the former play a company of boys andgirls assemble round the hibaclii, while they, or an adult, an aged per-son or a servan
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