Identifier: mikadosempire05grif (find matches)
Title: The mikado's empire
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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st each other was fre-^ ><* ^^^^^^^y quent. The balls flew back- ward and forward, up anddown. Finally, there wasbut one ball left. Twelvemen and horses contestedfor it. The Heike won thefirst game, having thrownall the thirty-six white ballsover their wicket, whilethe Genji had three redballs left on the ground.Three games were played,the Genji winning two.The prizes, awarded by theprince, were a roll of silk,a helmet, a porcelain vase,and autograph scrolls. August 2,8th.—I havereturned from a trip toHakuzan (Shiro yama,White Mountain) andKaga. , Emori and Iwa-buchi accompanied me. Ispent eight days amongthe mountains, being thefirst foreigner who has everascended Hakuzan. It isnine thousand three hun-dred and twenty feet highby imperfect method ofmeasurement, with only athermometer. At any rate,the surmise of Humboldt,and even the Japanese ofthis coast, that Hakuzan is higher than Fuji, is disposed of. At thetop was a Buddhist shrine, strongly built and handsomely furnished.
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TEE LAST YEAR OF FEUDALISM. 531 I spent the night in a hut near the summit, in which some fortypilgrims slept besides my two servants. The scenery from the edgeof the extinct crater, which was full of snow and water, was grand;but the mountain torrents, water-falls, and vistas lower down afford-ed the greatest pleasure. I passed \illages full of girls reeling silk.The crops of tobacco, indigo, hemp, rice, etc., promise to be lux-uriant. In the towns dense crowds lined the streets to see theforeigner. At the hotels the dainty Emori, in settling bills, neverhandles money, but folds the sum neatly in Avhite paper, and tiesit with the ceremonial red-and-white cord, and lays it on a tray, de-parting with many bows. I noticed many ja-kago ( snake-baskets ), Eope-dikes, or Suake-baskeis. or ropes of stones, used as piers and jetties to preserve river-banksfrom being washed away by flood or current. They are of split bam-boo, plaited in cylindrical nets, from ten to one hundred feet long, the

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