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diff --git a/57861-8.txt b/57861-0.txt index 3237bab..a76cef3 100644 --- a/57861-8.txt +++ b/57861-0.txt @@ -1,36 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mysterious Japan, by Julian Street - - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: Mysterious Japan - - -Author: Julian Street - - - -Release Date: September 7, 2018 [eBook #57861] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS JAPAN*** - - -E-text prepared by MFR, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made -available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57861 *** @@ -83,7 +51,7 @@ MYSTERIOUS JAPAN THE MOST INTERESTING AMERICAN (_A close-range study of Theodore Roosevelt_) - PARIS à LA CARTE + PARIS à LA CARTE SHIP-BORED @@ -185,7 +153,7 @@ First Edition IX. THE NATIONAL SPORT . . . . . . . . 103 - X. ON SAKé AND ITS EFFECTS . . . . . . . 115 + X. ON SAKé AND ITS EFFECTS . . . . . . . 115 XI. DIET AND DANCING . . . . . . . . . 127 @@ -265,7 +233,7 @@ First Edition No one without a sweet nature could smile the smile of one of these tea-house maids . . . . . . . . 118 - Family luncheon à la Japonaise . . . . . . . 134 + Family luncheon à la Japonaise . . . . . . . 134 Kimi-chiyo was at almost every Japanese-style party I attended . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 @@ -523,7 +491,7 @@ many stories as had been reported to him. In his fear of revolution or invasion the Emperor built a palace adjoining the American legation. And when, as happened now and then, -there came a _coup d'état_, threatening his personal safety, he would +there came a _coup d'état_, threatening his personal safety, he would get a ladder and climb over the wall separating the back yard of the palace from that of the American minister. This occurring frequently, so embarrassed the latter, that in order to put an end to His Majesty's @@ -715,7 +683,7 @@ have never ascended Fuji and those who have ascended twice." To this category I would add a third kind of fool, the greatest of them all: the fool who fails to appreciate the spectacle of Fuji. A creature who would be disappointed in Fuji would be disappointed in any spectacle, however -grand--be it the Grand Cañon, the Grand Canal, or the Grand Central +grand--be it the Grand Cañon, the Grand Canal, or the Grand Central Station. @@ -989,7 +957,7 @@ trend. It is conveniently arranged and impressive in its magnitude as seen across the open space on which it faces, but there its merit stops. Like most large foreign-style buildings in Japan, it is architecturally an ugly thing. Standing at the gate of Japan's chief city, it has about -it nothing Japanese. Its façade is grandiose and meaningless, and as one +it nothing Japanese. Its façade is grandiose and meaningless, and as one turns one's back upon it and sees other large new public structures, one is saddened by the discovery that the Japanese, skilful at adaptation though they have often shown themselves, have signally failed to adapt @@ -1115,7 +1083,7 @@ less prettily than other women of her class. The lines she cannot change. The fabrics are prescribed. The colours are restricted in accordance with her age. Her dress, like almost every other detail of her daily life, is regulated by a rigid code. If she be middle-aged and -fat she cannot make herself absurd by dressing as a débutante. If she be +fat she cannot make herself absurd by dressing as a débutante. If she be thin she cannot wear an evening gown cut down in back to show a spinal column like a string of wooden beads. Nor can she spend a fortune upon earrings, bracelets, necklaces. She may have some pretty ornamental @@ -1363,7 +1331,7 @@ stumbling now upon an ancient wayside shrine, now upon a shop full of users of such pipes, and _netsuke_ (large buttons for attaching pipe-cases and pouches to the sash) carved in delightfully fantastic forms; now upon a tea-shop full of tall coloured earthenware urns, -shaped like the amphoræ of ancient Rome and marked with baffling black +shaped like the amphoræ of ancient Rome and marked with baffling black ideographs. Now I would discover a tea-house on the brink of a stream, its balconies abloom with little geisha, its portals protected from impurity by three small piles of salt; now it would be a geisha quarter @@ -1569,7 +1537,7 @@ of wood and paper, are wide open, but at night they are enclosed with solid board shutters and people sleep practically without ventilation. At the door of a theatre or a restaurant the Japanese check their shoes instead of their hats; their sweets, if they come at all, are served -early in the meal instead of toward the end; men do their _saké_ +early in the meal instead of toward the end; men do their _saké_ drinking before rather than after the meal, and instead of icing the national beverage they heat it in a kettle. Action in the theatre is modelled not on life but on the movements of dolls in marionette shows, @@ -2024,7 +1992,7 @@ understanding of Flower Arrangement you meet some one who does not follow the tenets of the particular school of Flower Arrangement you have heard about--which, let us say, is the popular Ikenobo school--but believes in the teachings of the Enshiu school, the Koriu school, or the -Nagéire--"thrown in"--school. Or perhaps he favours the kindred art +Nagéire--"thrown in"--school. Or perhaps he favours the kindred art called Morimono--"things-piled-up"--which deals with compositions of fruit and vegetables; or the Morihana school, which applies the "things-piled-up" principle to flowers; or that other kindred art which @@ -2251,13 +2219,13 @@ not wanting others to deny the existence of any such spirituality as Sir Charles describes, and who, instead, harp upon the alleged Prussianism of Japan as explaining everything. -Doctor Nitobé, the gifted Japanese author, who, like Okakura, writes +Doctor Nitobé, the gifted Japanese author, who, like Okakura, writes delightfully in English, gives us as the key to Japan the doctrine of _bushido_, or "military knight ways"; but again there are students of Japan who affirm that the system of practical ethics attributed by the doctor's patriotic pen to the samurai of old, would astound those doughty warriors could they hear of it. The book "Bushido," declare -these critics, is less a key to Japan than to Doctor Nitobé. +these critics, is less a key to Japan than to Doctor Nitobé. Is not the interdependence of facts, of which I spoke earlier, illustrated in the trend of this chapter, all of which, remember, grew @@ -2690,7 +2658,7 @@ reason that trained nurses receive from $1 to $1.25 per day, which is considered good pay. Until ten or a dozen years ago there were no actresses in Japan, female -rôles invariably having been played by men, but the octogenarian Baron +rôles invariably having been played by men, but the octogenarian Baron Shibusawa (lately created Viscount), who has done so much toward liberalizing the thought of Japan in many lines, founded a school for actresses, with the result that there is now a place for them, and that @@ -2698,7 +2666,7 @@ a few have come to be well known, although none is as yet so popular as are the best-known actors. Actors hold in Japan a social position similar to that held by Occidental players a century or more ago. They are distinctly a lower caste, and while they are admired for their art, -and are adored by young girls as matinée idols are with us, they are +and are adored by young girls as matinée idols are with us, they are considered as belonging to a social stratum in which geisha and wrestlers figure. @@ -2845,7 +2813,7 @@ purpose of teaching young husbands and wives how to enjoy social life together, and there is no doubt that in fashionable society the better type of modern young husband treats his wife with much more consideration and courtesy, and makes much more a companion of her, than -was customary or even possible under the old régime. Twenty-five years +was customary or even possible under the old régime. Twenty-five years ago it was well enough for a man to walk on the street with a geisha, but the man who walked in public with his wife was jeered at, and might even find himself a target for missiles. Though that is no longer the @@ -3163,7 +3131,7 @@ closed. _The Courageous Congressmen--Geisha and Nesan--The Maple Club--The Gentleness of Servants--Removable Walls--Dancing Girls--A Lesson in the Use of Chopsticks--"Truthful Girl"--A - Toast in Saké--Drunkenness--My Friend the Amiable Inebriate--The + Toast in Saké--Drunkenness--My Friend the Amiable Inebriate--The Great Rice-Ball Mystery_ @@ -3187,8 +3155,8 @@ persons--about half of them Americans--given by a Tokyo gentleman for the purpose of showing us what a purely Japanese luncheon was like. It was held at the Maple Club, a large, rambling Japanese-style building standing in charming gardens in the midst of one of the Tokyo parks--a -Far Eastern equivalent of such Parisian restaurants as the Café -d'Armenonville or the Pré Catelan. +Far Eastern equivalent of such Parisian restaurants as the Café +d'Armenonville or the Pré Catelan. As we alighted from our rickshas a flock of smiling serving maids appeared in the doorway to greet us, indicating to us that we were to @@ -3299,7 +3267,7 @@ Since few geisha speak English, and very few Americans speak Japanese, we travellers from abroad are rather outsiders with the geisha, and our appreciation of them must be largely ocular. But a geisha can come as near to carrying on a wordless conversation as any woman can. Mine -smiled at me, filled my shallow little cup with warm saké from time to +smiled at me, filled my shallow little cup with warm saké from time to time, and showed me how to use my chop-sticks. I found the lesson most agreeable, and was presently rewarded by being told, through the Japanese friend at my side, that for a beginner I was doing very well. @@ -3314,7 +3282,7 @@ is a small soft towel which is brought to one warm and damp, in a little basket. It is used on the face and hands as a wash-cloth and is then removed. - [Illustration: Family luncheon à la Japonaise. The serving maid + [Illustration: Family luncheon à la Japonaise. The serving maid is kneeling in the corner at the back. If you would essay eating with chopsticks, try it with a pair of heavy knitting needles] @@ -3342,44 +3310,44 @@ pretty ones, whereat they both giggled. By this time we had established an _entente_ so cordial that it seemed fitting that we should drink to each other. Aided by the gentleman at my side and by Jitsuko, I learned the proper formalities of this ceremony. -First I rinsed my saké cup in a lacquer bowl provided for the purpose, +First I rinsed my saké cup in a lacquer bowl provided for the purpose, then passed it to Jitsuko. The preliminary rinsing indicated that she was now to fill the cup and drink. Had I passed it to her without rinsing, it would have meant that she was to refill it for me--for a -geisha never "plies" one with saké but waits for the cup to be passed. -When she had sipped the saké she in turn rinsed the cup, refilled it, +geisha never "plies" one with saké but waits for the cup to be passed. +When she had sipped the saké she in turn rinsed the cup, refilled it, and handed it to me to drink. Thus the friendly rite was completed. -I had heard that saké was extremely intoxicating, but that is not so. It +I had heard that saké was extremely intoxicating, but that is not so. It is rice wine, almost white in colour, and is served sometimes at normal temperature and sometimes slightly warm. It is rather more like a pale light sherry than any other Occidental beverage, but it lacks the full flavour of sherry, having a mild and not unpleasant flavour all its own. -On the whole I rather liked saké, and I found myself able to detect the -difference between ordinary saké and saké that was particularly good. +On the whole I rather liked saké, and I found myself able to detect the +difference between ordinary saké and saké that was particularly good. While on this subject I may add that liquor of all sorts flows freely in -Japan. Saké is the one alcoholic beverage generally served with meals in +Japan. Saké is the one alcoholic beverage generally served with meals in the Japanese style, but at the European-style luncheons and dinners I attended two or three kinds of wine were usually served, and there were cocktails before and sometimes liqueurs afterward. The Japanese have also taken up whisky-drinking to some extent. They import Scotch whisky -and also make a bad imitation Scotch whisky of their own. But saké still +and also make a bad imitation Scotch whisky of their own. But saké still reigns supreme as the national alcoholic drink, and when you see a -Japanese intoxicated you may be pretty sure that saké--a lot of -saké--did it. +Japanese intoxicated you may be pretty sure that saké--a lot of +saké--did it. In my evening strolls, particularly in the gay, crowded district of Asakusa Park in Tokyo--a Japanese Coney Island, full of theatres, motion-picture houses, animal shows, conjuring exhibitions, teahouses, bazaars and the like, surrounding a great Buddhist temple--I saw many intoxicated men, but I never came upon one who was ugly or troublesome. -Whether because of some quality in the Japanese nature, or in the saké, +Whether because of some quality in the Japanese nature, or in the saké, this drink seems only to make gay, talkative and sometimes boisterous those who have taken too much of it. I should not be surprised if the Japanese need alcoholic stimulants rather more than other races need them. For one thing the climate of Japan, except in the mountains, is enervating; and for another, the Japanese nature is generally repressed, -and saké tends to liberate it. +and saké tends to liberate it. I noticed this at another entertainment in Tokyo--a dinner of newspaper editors. Being the only foreigner there, and being enormously interested @@ -3389,12 +3357,12 @@ theirs. But although I sensed that they did not agree with all I said, their responses exhibited only the sort of polite tolerance that a courteous host will show a somewhat obstreperous guest. For some time I felt that I had acted like a bad boy at a party. But after the geisha -had filled our cups with saké more than once, I got what I was looking +had filled our cups with saké more than once, I got what I was looking for--an argument. It was a polite argument, but we had become friendly -enough to speak frankly. _In saké veritas._ +enough to speak frankly. _In saké veritas._ -This was a case of just enough saké, but so far as I was able to -observe, even too much saké produces no very objectionable results. I +This was a case of just enough saké, but so far as I was able to +observe, even too much saké produces no very objectionable results. I shall never forget the young man, brightly illuminated with this beverage, who came up to me one evening on the street, in a small town. He was full of a desire to practise English on me and to help me. He @@ -3460,7 +3428,7 @@ Giggling, she shook her head. "But Yuki--I don't understand. What's the joke?" Shaking with merriment she whispered to my wife. It developed that the -saké-inspired Japanese had presented me with a tidbit specially prepared +saké-inspired Japanese had presented me with a tidbit specially prepared for prospective mothers. All things considered it seemed advisable to get rid of it at once. I @@ -3507,7 +3475,7 @@ menu was as follows: SECOND TABLE _Hors d'oeuvres--Vegetables_ - _Fish consommé_ + _Fish consommé_ _Grilled eels_ _Rice_ _Pickled vegetables_ @@ -3615,7 +3583,7 @@ expression. One thing that sometimes makes the stranger in Japan slow to appreciate the dancing of geisha, is the very fact that it is called dancing; for the term suggests to us a picture of Pavlowa poised like a swiftly -flying bird, or Genée looking like a bisque doll and spinning on one +flying bird, or Genée looking like a bisque doll and spinning on one toe. Dancing, to us, means, first of all, rhythm. We look for rhythm in a geisha dance, and failing to find it--at least in the sense in which we understand the meaning of the word--we are baffled. It is only one @@ -3677,7 +3645,7 @@ clever to adjust herself to the situation. During the meal the geisha will sit before or beside the gentleman she is designated to entertain, chatting with him, amusing him and serving -him with saké. Afterward she will join the other geisha in giving an +him with saké. Afterward she will join the other geisha in giving an entertainment, the part she takes in this depending upon her special talent, which may be for singing, playing, or dancing. Pretty young geisha are most often dancers, while those who are older are generally @@ -3751,7 +3719,7 @@ clam-digging. In it the dancers held small trays which in pantomime they used as shovels, going through the motion of digging the clams out of the sand and throwing them into a basket. The dance was accompanied by a song, as was also another folk dance in which two of the maiko enacted -the rôles of lovers who were obliged to part because the mother of the +the rôles of lovers who were obliged to part because the mother of the girl was forcing her to marry a rich man. I was interested to notice in this dance that the gesture to indicate weeping--the holding of one hand in front of the eyes at a distance of two or three inches from them--is @@ -4068,8 +4036,8 @@ _gyunabe_ is the Mikawaya restaurant in the Yotsuya section, not far from the palace of the Crown Prince. [Illustration: A bill from the Kanetanaka teahouse, with items - of ¥ 26.30 for food, saké, etc., and ¥ 27.80 for "six - saké-servers (geisha) tips to geisha and their attendants."] + of Â¥ 26.30 for food, saké, etc., and Â¥ 27.80 for "six + saké-servers (geisha) tips to geisha and their attendants."] To be more specific about prices, I gave an excellent luncheon of this kind for four, at one of the Suyehiro restaurants, at a cost of about @@ -4084,7 +4052,7 @@ quarterly. Adversaries of the geisha system informed me with the air of imparting scandal, that one sixth of all the money spent in Japan goes to geisha and things connected with geisha, presumably meaning restaurants, -teahouses, saké and the like. +teahouses, saké and the like. "A reformer," says Don Marquis, the Sage of Nassau Street, "is a dog in the manger who won't sin himself and won't let any one else sin @@ -4181,7 +4149,7 @@ the Chinese character. There were, I think, about thirty of these sticks, and each represented a shogi. The number-one shogi was the most sought-after; number two ranked next, and so on. We were shown by the proprietress and some maids to a large matted room on the second floor, -where saké, cakes and fruit were served to us. Then there appeared three +where saké, cakes and fruit were served to us. Then there appeared three geisha of a most unusual kind. They were women fifty-five or sixty years of age, rather large, with faces genial, amusing, and respectable. These I was told were geisha with a great local reputation for boisterous wit. @@ -4449,7 +4417,7 @@ The choice for the year 1921 was made from seventeen thousand poems sent from all parts of the Empire, and when announcement was made of the names of those whose poems were read at the Court, it was discovered that, among them was an American lady, Frances Hawkes Burnett, wife of -Col. Charles Burnett, military attaché of the American Embassy at Tokyo. +Col. Charles Burnett, military attaché of the American Embassy at Tokyo. Mrs. Burnett thus attains the unique distinction of being the only foreign woman ever to have won Imperial approval with a poem in the Japanese language. @@ -4531,7 +4499,7 @@ several centuries old; in that of Baron Okura, a famous museum of Chinese and Japanese antiquities and art works; and in the gardens of Baron Furukawa and Baron Sumitomo, smaller private museums. Tucked away in the corner of one garden near Kobe I had even seen a little factory -in which the finest wireless cloisonné was being made, the owner of that +in which the finest wireless cloisonné was being made, the owner of that garden having a deep interest in this art and using the productions of his artist-workmen to give as presents to his friends. And of course in many gardens I had seen houses built especially for the _cha-no-yu_, or @@ -5301,7 +5269,7 @@ Majesty.' This poem he showed to Prince Yamagata, who took it to mean merely that Nogi would be in the procession following the Imperial remains to the grave. -"But when the guns announced the departure of the funeral cortège from +"But when the guns announced the departure of the funeral cortège from the palace, Nogi was not there. Like the samurai of old, he desired to follow his dead master into the beyond. At the sound of the guns he took his short sword and committed seppuku, while in the next room Countess @@ -5347,7 +5315,7 @@ he were to underscore his protest--in red." _The Old-time Anti-Foreign Sentiment--Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa--Emperor and Shogun--Prince Yoshinobu becomes - Shogun--His Highness, Akitaké, Goes to France--Humorous + Shogun--His Highness, Akitaké, Goes to France--Humorous Episodes--The Defeat of Prince Yoshinobu's Army--Various Explanations--The Restoration of the Emperor--Prince Yoshinobu's Retirement--The Viscount's Theory--Prince Keikyu Tokugawa--A @@ -5404,19 +5372,19 @@ track of all modern innovations and supervising the new-style military drill, with rifles, which we were then taking up. "Shortly after becoming Shogun, Yoshinobu decided to send his brother, -Akitaké, to France to be educated, and he appointed me a member of the +Akitaké, to France to be educated, and he appointed me a member of the entourage that was to accompany the young man. I was then twenty-seven years old. "We sailed in January 1867--a party of twenty-five, among whom were a doctor, an officer who went to study artillery, and various others -besides Akitaké's seven personal attendants. +besides Akitaké's seven personal attendants. "For international purposes the Shogun was now called Tycoon, for the word 'shogun,' meaning 'generalissimo,' carried with it no connotation of rulership; whereas 'tycoon' means 'great prince'--and of course it seemed proper enough for a great prince to treat with foreign powers. As -brother of the Tycoon, Akitaké received, in Europe, the title +brother of the Tycoon, Akitaké received, in Europe, the title 'Highness'. "Matters looked very ominous for the shogunate at the time we left @@ -5465,7 +5433,7 @@ publicly relinquishing the shogun's power and then fighting to maintain it. These seemingly conflicting acts puzzled me, for I knew that Yoshinobu was a man of the highest honour. -"Presently came a messenger from Japan saying that Akitaké had become +"Presently came a messenger from Japan saying that Akitaké had become head of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa family, which made it necessary for us to abandon our plans and return. We sailed from England in December 1867, reaching Japan in November 1868, eleven months later. @@ -5482,7 +5450,7 @@ mysterious course he had pursued. continued for thirty years to reside in the neighbourhood of Suruga, leading a secluded life. Not until thirty-one years after his resignation of the shogunate did he come to Tokyo. Four years later the -Emperor created him a prince of the new régime. This showed pretty +Emperor created him a prince of the new régime. This showed pretty clearly that the Emperor had not mistrusted him. "For twenty years after my return to Japan I was unable to get at the @@ -6192,7 +6160,7 @@ will tell you what is the trouble with the Japanese: "They are used to playing only with white chips!" The American housekeeper in Japan, if she knows what nerves are, may -have similar difficulties. Her Japanese servants will conduct her ménage +have similar difficulties. Her Japanese servants will conduct her ménage well enough if she lets them do it in their Japanese way, but if she attempts to run her home as she would run it in the United States, she is lost. It can't be done. I know of an American woman who could not get @@ -6891,7 +6859,7 @@ Had California, in her desire to prevent the further acquirement of land by Japanese settlers, rested her case on these two clean-cut issues: namely, unassimilability and economic necessity; had she refrained from vituperation, taking up the matter purely on its merits; had she -recognized her duty as a state to the Nation and coöperated with the +recognized her duty as a state to the Nation and coöperated with the Washington Government, instead of ignoring the international bearing of the question and embarrassing the Government by radical and independent state action; and had she, above all, shown any disposition to deal as @@ -7287,7 +7255,7 @@ feeling which then existed. Though he never visited Japan, Roosevelt, with his amazing understanding of people, managed to sense the Japanese perfectly. He knew their virtues and their failings. He realized precisely the state they had -attained in their evolution from mediævalism to modernity. He knew their +attained in their evolution from mediævalism to modernity. He knew their samurai loyalty and pride, their sensitiveness, their love of courtesy. "Speak softly and carry a big stick," he used to say. In those words is @@ -7348,7 +7316,7 @@ boarded it, and was presently rocking along through open country at twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. There was something of solemn playfulness about that little train. The cars were no heavier than street cars and the locomotive would have made hard work of drawing a -pair of Pullmans, yet in its present rôle it gave a pompous performance, +pair of Pullmans, yet in its present rôle it gave a pompous performance, hissing, whistling, and snorting as importantly as if it had been the engine of a great express. The little guards, too, joined gravely in the game, calling out the names of country stations as majestically as if @@ -7408,7 +7376,7 @@ may get a variety of Japanese dishes, similarly packed. On this trip I selected a box of that delicacy known as _tai-meshi_, and was not sorry that my order for lunch had been overlooked at the hotel. Tai-meshi consists of a palatable combination of rice and shredded -sea-bream cooked in a sauce containing saké which obliterates the fishy +sea-bream cooked in a sauce containing saké which obliterates the fishy taste of the sea-bream. The box cost me the equivalent of seventeen cents, chop-sticks included. From the green-cap boy who sold it to me I also purchased, for five cents, an earthenware pot containing tea, and a @@ -8118,7 +8086,7 @@ few minutes later we stepped from his skiff to a natural platform of granite at the island's edge. As we landed we were assimilated by a guide who began by indicating certain circular holes in the granite which, he declared, had been made by the hoofs of Yoritomo's horse. For -legend has it that, when pursued, this mediæval military hero used +legend has it that, when pursued, this mediæval military hero used Niemon Island as a hiding place. Nor are the horse's hoof-prints the only evidence supporting this tale. One may see the cave in which the great Yoritomo concealed himself. @@ -8193,7 +8161,7 @@ away. _I Take Gen's Photograph--The Pay of Fisher-Folk--Where All the World Works--We Help Gen Pull Her Cart--And Surprise Some - Wayfarers--The Road Grows Long--Fairy Débutantes_ + Wayfarers--The Road Grows Long--Fairy Débutantes_ In an exceptionally picturesque fishing village a few miles on, I paused @@ -8399,7 +8367,7 @@ But now imagine another picture. Take those two men out of a situation in which one has manifestly an unfair advantage, and place them on an equal footing in a totally different environment. Take them, let us say, to an American city, place them in a ballroom, bring in a lot of -beautiful débutantes--hundreds of them, all in pretty little evening +beautiful débutantes--hundreds of them, all in pretty little evening gowns and satin slippers--start up the band. _Then_ see what happens! One of these men is a bookworm. He knows a lot about languages. He can @@ -8411,9 +8379,9 @@ steps. In the intricate mazes of the dance he seems to float godlike through the air. All right! Now I ask you, which one of these two men is going to be a -success with all those débutantes? Is Japanese going to advance a man -very far with an American débutante? In all fairness I say No! A -débutante is too clever--too clever with her feet--to be misled by mere +success with all those débutantes? Is Japanese going to advance a man +very far with an American débutante? In all fairness I say No! A +débutante is too clever--too clever with her feet--to be misled by mere linguistic talent. True worth is the thing that counts with her. She looks for solid merit in a man. In other words: _What kind of a dancer is he?_ @@ -8436,7 +8404,7 @@ road. "They have lovely natures, these Japanese women," the linguist presently remarked. -"If you'll look over a lot of American débutantes," I replied, "you'll +"If you'll look over a lot of American débutantes," I replied, "you'll find that they are just about as----" "You don't understand," he interrupted. "I'm not talking about mere @@ -8451,7 +8419,7 @@ trying to make me say something more enthusiastic, I would not be coerced. He was too much puffed up as it was. I had another reason, too, for withholding from that pretty peasant girl -the fullest praise. I must be faithful to the débutantes who, from far +the fullest praise. I must be faithful to the débutantes who, from far away, had come floating like a swarm of fairies to console me as I tugged Gen Tajima's lumbering cart along a dusty road upon the seacoast of Japan. @@ -8809,7 +8777,7 @@ A more serious dilemma is revealed in the following: Up to this day, unfortunate enough, I am destined most unfavourably for the monetary circumstance, and consequently have no saving against worldly concerns, I am forced to ask you - for a loan of ¥ 25.00 to get rid of the burden befallen on me by + for a loan of Â¥ 25.00 to get rid of the burden befallen on me by the birth. I know it is the meanest of all to ask one's help for monetary @@ -8959,7 +8927,7 @@ representations of the Buddhist god Daruma, that delightful egg-shaped comedian who will run out his tongue and his eyes for you, or, if not that, will refuse to stay down when you roll him over; in figurines without number, of ivory or wood; in sword-guards embellished with -fantastic conceits; in those carved ivory buttons called _netsuké_, +fantastic conceits; in those carved ivory buttons called _netsuké_, treasured by collectors; and perhaps most often in Japanese colour-prints. @@ -9122,7 +9090,7 @@ Sometimes we felt that the servants were showing us too much consideration. We dined out a great deal and were often late in getting home ("Home" was the term we found ourselves using there), yet however advanced the hour, the chauffeur would sound his horn on entering the -gate, whereupon lights would flash on beneath the porte-cochère, the +gate, whereupon lights would flash on beneath the porte-cochère, the shoji at the entrance of the house would slide open, and three or four domestics would come out, dragging a wide strip of red velvet carpet, over which we would walk magnificently up the two steps leading to the @@ -9815,365 +9783,4 @@ in the index some items are closed with periods, but most are not. -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTERIOUS JAPAN*** - - -******* This file should be named 57861-8.txt or 57861-8.zip ******* - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/5/7/8/6/57861 - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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