Identifier: japanjapaneseill00humb (find matches)
Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE CANGO, OR PEOPLES PALANQUIN. The Tokaido is crossed in several places by arms of the sea and by rapid rivers.Large boats do duty as coaches, and cross the strait wdiich separates the island ofKiousiou from Simonosdki, in two hours. Most of the travellers, and even pilgrims,profit by the great merchant-junks of the inland sea to make the journey from Simonosdkito Hiogo. It is only half a days journey from Hiogo to Osaka, and one day from Osakato Kioto. Between this city and Yeddo lie the most picturesque portions of the road. 158 JJFE IN JAPJK Travellers croFS the rivers in flat boats, or on tlie shoulders of porters. TheseTwrters forni a corporation, wliich iiulemnifics the traveller in case of personal accident
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TATTOOED cool.IKS or lo.ss of baggage. Wilb the exception of a girdle tattooing suffices for tlicir clotliijig,according fo cnstuiu ;uii<iiig tlu Coolies of .Tapan. The sul)jects of this process arc heroic, COOLIES. 159 suck as the Strife of Yamato with the Dragon, the Tribunal of Hell,, aud the image ofthat incomparable soldier who, when his head was falling under the sword, tore offhis enemies armour with his teeth. The fare is always extremely moderate, and varies according to whether eightmen are employed to carry the uorimon, or four men with a litter, two men with astretcher, or a simple porter. In the latter case, which is the most frequent, thetraveller seats himself astride the bearers neck, and the latter takes him l»v both lees,and, telling him to sit steadily, steps into the water warily and firmly. Sometimes asudden rise of the river intercepts the passage, and then the travellers install themselvesin the tea-houses on the shore, from whence they svatch the water unti

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