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Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1952-
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Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder & Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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finer and iscelebrated for the gilding of the interior walls, thegorgeous decoration of the shrines and the memo-rial tablets in gold lacquer. Here, also, are eighttablets erected to the memory of eight mothers ofshoguns, all of whom were concubines. A short distance from Uyeno Park is the greatBuddhist temple known as Asakusa Kwannon, ded-icated to Kwannon, the goddess of mercy. The ap-proaches to this temple on any pleasant day looklike a country fair. The crowd is so dense that jin-rikishas can not approach within one hundred yards.The shrine dates back to the sixth century and thetemple is the most popular resort of its kind inTokio. On each side of the entrance lane are shops,where all kinds of curios, toys, cakes, et cetera, aresold. The temple itself is crowded with votaries whooffer coins to the various idols, while below (near thestairs that give entrance to the temple) are variousside booths that are patronized by worshipers.Some of these gods promise long life; others give
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The Yomei-mori Gate, Iepsu Temple, Nikko. One of the Most Beautiful Gates in all Japan. The Columns Are Painted White, with Capitals of Unicorns Heads. The Roof is Supported by Gilt Dragons Heads The Japanese Capital happiness, and several insure big families to womenwho offer money and say prayers. One of the remarkable jinrikisha rides in Japanis that from Uyeno to Shimbashi station throughthe heart of Tokio by night. This takes abouta half hour and it gives a series of pictures of thegreat Japanese city that can be gained in no otherway. Here may be seen miles of little shops liningalleys not over ten or twelve feet wide, in most ofwhich work is going on busily as late as elevenoclock. In places the sleepy proprietors are puttingup their shutters, preparatory to going to bed, butin others the work of artisan or baker or weaver goeson as though the day had only fairly begun. Mostof these shops are lighted by electricity, but thislight is the only modern thing about them. Theweaver s

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