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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: Washington : A. O. P. Nicholson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y may possess, is derived fromthe Chinese and Japanese. The occupation of the Lew Chewans is chiefly agricultural, although they have some little MANUFACTURES.— PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE. 317 commerce witli China and Japan, to which they send annually a few junks, which carry sucharticles of clothing and provisions as can be spared, and bring back in exchange the productionsof those countries. They have apparently no currency of their own, but in sjjite of their pro-testations to the contrary, they are evidently familiar with money, particularly with the Chinesecopper coin termed cash. Their manufactures are few, and consist of sugar of a coarse kind,salt of inferior quality, large vats for making which are found extending along the bay ofNapha, SaJcce, a spirit distilled from rice, cotton and grass cloth of rude texture, an inferiorstyle of lacquered ware, pottery, hair pins, junks, agricultural tools, and a limited variety ofother articles needed for their own simple life.
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Salt Flats—Napha. In the higher arts, the Lew Chewans have not made much progress, although there are speci-mens among them of rude paintings and sculpture, particularly of the latter, in the coarsefigures of their idols, with which they adorn their tombs and temples. In their architecturethere is more evidence of advance than in the other brandies of the fine arts. The ruins of thecastles in the northern and southern parts of the island, and flie structure of the jialace of Shui,with the various bridges, viaducts and roads throughout the country, show considerable archi-tectural .skill. In the arches and massive masonry of the fortresses, and walls of stone, thereare marks, not only of artistic design, but of skilful workmanship. Their town liouiies arc all 318 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. constructed of wood, roofed with earthen tiles, surrounded with verandahs of bamboo, andenclosed within high walls of coral. The cottages in the country are generally thatched withrice straw, and surroun

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