By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . white muslin garb, is pre-ceded by a number of pipers clad in flowing, cop-peras-coloured garments, playing a doleful, monot-onous dirge. Two or three yellow-skinned, hard-faced old priests of high rank, arrayed in scarletand gold and wearing silken mitres, dash out of thehouse of the dead, and under cover of an enormouscrimson umbrella, which a servant carries over eachones head, they severally proceed to their ancient-style palanquin, which four men dressed in lightblue, stiffly starched, kite-shaped coverings, bearby means of a fifteen-f
By Nippon's lotus ponds; pen pictures of real Japan . white muslin garb, is pre-ceded by a number of pipers clad in flowing, cop-peras-coloured garments, playing a doleful, monot-onous dirge. Two or three yellow-skinned, hard-faced old priests of high rank, arrayed in scarletand gold and wearing silken mitres, dash out of thehouse of the dead, and under cover of an enormouscrimson umbrella, which a servant carries over eachones head, they severally proceed to their ancient-style palanquin, which four men dressed in lightblue, stiffly starched, kite-shaped coverings, bearby means of a fifteen-foot, richly lacquered ridge-pole. These august personages having entered, atonce disappear from sight as the attendants closethe little silk-curtained doors. They in turn arefollowed by about ten priests riding in jinrikishas,adorned in their finest regalia and with headsfreshly shaven. Each of these priests is attendedby his satellite, and that one in turn by a humbletemple servant, carrying a big vermilion-lacqueredand oddly shaped folding RIKISHA PULLERS DRAWING LOTS FOR PASSENGERS
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