. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. Japanese Mangling. board is;hung around her neck. As I have never seen anexample of this custom in my daily duties, which havecarried me everywhere, either the custom must be nearlyobsolete or domestic felicity is very general. To enter upon the consideration of burial ceremonieswould imply some study of Buddhism, which I mustreserve for another work. Both incremation and inhuma-tion are practised in Japan. Japanese faith in immortality has survived the long 288 Nine Years in Nipon. continuance of a Buddhist teaching which seems to
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. Japanese Mangling. board is;hung around her neck. As I have never seen anexample of this custom in my daily duties, which havecarried me everywhere, either the custom must be nearlyobsolete or domestic felicity is very general. To enter upon the consideration of burial ceremonieswould imply some study of Buddhism, which I mustreserve for another work. Both incremation and inhuma-tion are practised in Japan. Japanese faith in immortality has survived the long 288 Nine Years in Nipon. continuance of a Buddhist teaching which seems to manyto deny it. A native paper published in Osaka, in April of 1878,relates the following incident :— Inouye of this city hasmade a life-size figure of a daughter of his who friends of the family were feasted some days ago onthe occasion of the image being completed. It is nowalways attended by two maid-servants, and in a few daysit is to be taken to the Shinto Cherry Temple to seethe A St2idious and Djitiful Girl SJiMnpooing her Rheumatic Father.{From a Japanese Story-Book. When a believer of the Monto sect dies, a copper isput in the coffin to pay Granny of the River of Death,just as the Greeks paid for old Charons services to theirdeparted. Japanese Manners and Customs. 289 The Japanese do not buy their own coffin-boards andstore them in their drawing-rooms as the Chinese do, butthey used to retain the dead in their own dwellings for along time—a custom which is happily being given dead are buried in cemeteries, as with us, and arenot scattered about the country singly as in China—afact of great practical significance in relation to railways in Japan. The Japanese are as fond of proverbs and pithy sayingsas we are, and some of them are very happy hits in theoriginal, though translation weakens them. Not a few ofthe proverbs which have been noted by writers as currentin Japan are of very recent introduction into that country,and the process of
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