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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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, beast, or angel; though we have heardthat the entire bevy of Miss Flora MFlimseys cousins in Yokohamaassert most strenuously that there is nothing to wear at any time.Nevertheless, to man or beast, the abundance and variety of feminineparaphernalia visible in one of the shops in which angelic robes aresold is simply wonderful; and one notices that the visits of the angelsto this place are neither few nor far between. Craftsmen in the finerarts also get their wealth in Yokohama. Several jewelers displaytempting wares, and ply a brisk trade. Young Japan wears a watchnowadays, and thousands are sold yearly in Yokohama. Barbers polessalute us on several streets, and one may be shaved in French, English,or Japanese fashion. Photographic establishments tempt our eyes and purse with tastefulalbums of Japanese costume and scenery. First-class eating-saloonsawait their crowds at the hungry hour. The several auction - roomsseem to be well filled with native and foreign purchasers. Confection-
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FIRST GLIMPSES OF JAPAN. 337 ers display their bait for the palate. Newspaper offices greet us; law-yers and doctors and dentists signs seem to be sufficiently plentiful.Carriages and traps add to the bustle, and several knots of Japanesefarmers, pilgrims, and new-comers from the provinces, staring surpris-ingly at the sights they have long heard of, but which they now forthe first time behold, are met as we pass up the street. French Cath-olic or Russian Greek priests in their cassocks, nuns in their blackrobes, well-dressed Chinese, Jews from every nation under heaven,French soldiers in blue, British soldiers in red coats, and the talkersin a score of different languages, are met with, and help to give thetown its cosmopolitan character. Main Street, however, is only thestreet of shops, shop-keepers, and the usual vulgar herd. Let us turn into the street of hongs and merchants. Be itknown that in Yokohama, and the Eastern ports generally, the dis-tinction between a merchant and a sh

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