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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
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by the imposing effect of the ancient trees which arc almost always to be found in their vicinity. Bhuddhist pagodas, which are lofty towers with pointed roofs, adorned with cralleries on each iloor, aic much less common in Japan than in China. On entering the basin of Hiogo, we came in sight of a towji of .some importance,on the coast of Sikoff; it is called Iniabari. A vast sandy beach, which is rarely to1)0 found in Japan, stretched back to a kind of suburb, in which we could discern a busy concourse of people, apparently carrying on market business. Above the strand WEALTH OF THE EMPIRE. 5 were fertile plains, -whose undulating lines were lost in the mist at the foot of a chain of mountains bathed in sunshine. The principal peaks of this chain—Kori-yama, Yafatzowsen, and Siro Yama—are fi-om 1,000 to 3,000 yards in height. Fortifications, or rather mounds of earth, behind which shone several banners,protected the batteries posted in front of the port. Some soldiers, standing in a
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ISLANDERS OF THE INLAND SEA. group on the shore, followed our corvette with their eyes. There was nothing remarkable in the aspect of the town, except the sacred places, adorned l)y gigantic trees. Some time afterwards we passed, within rifle-range, a large Japanese steamer, which our pilot, whom we consulted, and Avho judged from the colours of the flag, informed us was the property of the Prince of Tosa. His estates are situated in the southern portion of the Island of Sikoff, and they bring him in a very large annual revenue. G LIFE IN JAPAN. Most probably he was returning from a conference of the feudal party held in the city of Kioto, at the court of the Hereditary Emperor of Japan ; and had embarked atHiogo, in order to regain his own province by the Boungo canal. What were his sentiments on behold in a; a strange corvette cleavinoj the waters of the Inland Sea ?Does he flatter himself that he can repel the civilization of the AVest by the armswhich it places at his disposal ? Doe

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