He is served first at meals. A Japanese generally sharpens his pencil with outward cuts. Also he strikes a match away from him. Japanese pack away their pictures, curious, and ornaments, and have as little as possible in their rooms in contrast to the Western cusom. Pictures are hung in a certain order.
Ideographs hold the first rank, then black and white pictures, lastly colored pictures.
These are changed according to the season and to conform with sixed aesthetic rules. This order is in contrast to the Western way of hanging pictures wherever they will go, often with little artistic consideration. A Japanese set of cups, plates, etc., is 5 or 10, not 6 or 12. The housemaid dusts first, then sweeps. The Japanese sleep on futons on the floor, and avoid the North position in sleeping, for the reason that the dead are placed in that position.