. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. The Marketing and Preparation of Food: A Kitchen, showingUtensils; A Fishmonger LAKESIDE CHAPELS 73 Izu. At a village, hemmed in between a lake and amountain, the lake itself surrounded in every otherdirection by mountains not to be climbed, was a narrowpass—another imperial searching-place, where all per-sons travelling to, and especially from, Yedo must sub-mit to a rigorous examination. Upon the shore of thislake were five small wooden chapels, and in each apriest seated, beating a gong and howling a namida[abbreviation of Nam
. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan. The Marketing and Preparation of Food: A Kitchen, showingUtensils; A Fishmonger LAKESIDE CHAPELS 73 Izu. At a village, hemmed in between a lake and amountain, the lake itself surrounded in every otherdirection by mountains not to be climbed, was a narrowpass—another imperial searching-place, where all per-sons travelling to, and especially from, Yedo must sub-mit to a rigorous examination. Upon the shore of thislake were five small wooden chapels, and in each apriest seated, beating a gong and howling a namida[abbreviation of Namamidabutsu]. All the Japanesefoot-travellers of our retinue, says Kampfer, threwthem some kasses into the chapel, and in return receivedeach a paper, which they carried, bareheaded, with greatrespect, to the shore, in order to throw it into the lake,having first tied a stone to it, that it might be sure togo to the bottom, which they believe is the purgatoryfor children who die before seven years of age. Theyare told so by their priests, who, for their comfo
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